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Expectation - is Contentment

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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Expectation - is Contentment -
Gain - Satiety -
But Satiety - Conviction
Of Necessity

Of an Austere trait in Pleasure -
Good, without alarm
Is a too established Fortune -
Danger - deepens Sum -




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