Virgins promised when I died,
That they would each primrose-tide
Duly, morn and evening, come,
And with flowers dress my tomb.
--Having promised, pay your debts
Maids, and here strew violets.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed
by Emily Dickinson
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It would never be Common-more-I said-
Difference-had begun-
Many a bitterness-had been-
But that old sort-was done-
Or-if it sometime-showed-as 'twill-
Upon the Downiest-Morn-