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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 103. Immortal is an ample word

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.

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