A sickness of this world it most occasions

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

XXXIII.


ASICKNESS of this world it most occasions

      When best men die;

A wishfulness their far condition

      To occupy.


A chief indifference, as foreign

      A world must be

Themselves forsake contented,

      For Deity.

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