The implements of bliss are few --
As Jesus says of Him,
"Come unto me" the moiety
That wafts the cherubim.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.Emily Dickinson
Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee --
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief.
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When Choice of Life -- is past --
There yet remains a Love
Its little Fate to stipulate --
Emily Dickinson
But Bliss, is sold just once.
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We parted with a contract
To cherish, and to write
But Heaven made both, impossible
Before another night.
Emily Dickinson
Pardon the Cochineal --
Suffer the Vermillion --
Death is the Wealth
Of the Poorest Bird.
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