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All I may, if small

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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All I may, if small,
Do it not display
Larger for the Totalness -
'Tis Economy

To bestow a World
And withhold a Star -
Utmost, is Munificence -
Less, tho' larger, poor.




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