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Rehearsal to Ourselves

by Emily Dickinson

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Rehearsal to Ourselves
Of a Withdrawn Delight-
Affords a Bliss like Murder-
Omnipotent-Acute-

We will not drop the Dirk-
Because We love the Wound
The Dirk Commemorate-Itself
Remind Us that we died.

Billy Collins

Henry David Thoreau

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

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