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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 125. If tolling bell I ask the cause

JOY IN DEATH.


If tolling bell I ask the cause.

'A soul has gone to God,'

I'm answered in a lonesome tone;

Is heaven then so sad?


That bells should joyful ring to tell

A soul had gone to heaven,

Would seem to me the proper way

A good news should be given.

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