A thought went up my mind to-day

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

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ATHOUGHT went up my mind to-day

      That I have had before,

But did not finish,—some way back,

I could not fix the year,


Nor where it went, nor why it came

The second time to me,

Nor definitely what it was,

Have I the art to say.


But somewhere in my soul, I know

I've met the thing before;

It just reminded me—'t was all—

And came my way no more.

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