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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 84. We learn in the retreating

We learn in the retreating

How vast an one

Was recently among us.

A perished sun


Endears in the departure

How doubly more

Than all the golden presence

It was before!

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