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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 90 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 15

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I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then cloudier become;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without disclosing what it be,
'T were blessed to have seen.

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