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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 258 of 446 · Second Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 19

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I noticed people disappeared,
When but a little child, --
Supposed they visited remote,
Or settled regions wild.

Now know I they both visited
And settled regions wild,
But did because they died, -- a fact
Withheld the little child!

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