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1830–1886

XXI.

Emily Dickinson

Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, ‘ T is a necessity.

Of heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know, Except for its marauding hand, It had been heaven below.

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