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To offer brave assistance

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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To offer brave assistance
To Lives that stand alone-
When One has failed to stop them-
Is Human-but Divine

To lend an Ample Sinew
Unto a Nameless Man-
Whose Homely Benediction
No other-stopped to earn-




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