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1830–1886

VIII.

Emily Dickinson

To lose thee, sweeter than to gain All other hearts I knew. ‘ T is true the drought is destitute, But then I had the dew!

The Caspian has its realms of sand, Its other realm of sea; Without the sterile perquisite No Caspian could be.

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