Lest Love should value less
What Loss would value more
Had it the stricken privilege,
It cherishes before.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Because a Height so high
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Requirements
And Services of Snow.
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Too few the mornings be,
Too scant the nights.
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Than Heaven more remote,
For Heaven is the root,
But these the flitted seed.
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Insulting is the sun
To him whose mortal light
Beguiled of immortality
Bequeaths him to the night.
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