A death-blow is a life-blow to some

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

VI.


ADEATH-BLOW is a life-blow to some

      Who, till they died, did not alive become;

Who, had they lived, had died, but when

They died, vitality begun.

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