So proud she was to die

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

      It made us all ashamed

That what we cherished, so unknown

      To her desire seemed.


So satisfied to go

      Where none of us should be,

Immediately, that anguish stooped

      Almost to jealousy.

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