If I can stop one heart from breaking

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

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

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