Immortal is an ample word

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

      When what we need is by,

But when it leaves us for a time,

      'Tis a necessity.


Of heaven above the firmest proof

      We fundamental know,

Except for its marauding hand,

      It had been heaven below.

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