I noticed people disappeared

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

      When but a little child,—

Supposed they visited remote,

Or settled regions wild.


Now know I they both visited

And settled regions wild,

But did because they died,—a fact

Withheld the little child!

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