Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when… - Emily Dickinson

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Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, ’T is a necessity. Of heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know, Except for its marauding hand, It had been heaven below.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, — The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
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To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

I only know that when you shall come back again, the Earth will seem more beautiful, and bigger than it does now, and the blue sky from the window will be all dotted with gold — though it may not be evening, or time for the stars to come.

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