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Besides this May

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Besides this May
We know
There is Another -
How fair
Our Speculations of the Foreigner!

Some know Him whom We knew -
Sweet Wonder -
A Nature be
Where Saints, and our plain going Neighbor
Keep May!




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