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Ambition cannot find him

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Ambition cannot find him.
Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.

Yesterday, undistinguished!
Eminent Today
For our mutual hone, Immortality!




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