One thing of it we borrow

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

One thing of it we borrow

And promise to return —

The Booty and the Sorrow

Its Sweetness to have known —

One thing of it we covet —

The power to forget —

The Anguish of the Avarice

Defrays the Dross of it —

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