Had this one day not been

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

Or could it cease to be—

How smitten, how superfluous

Were every other day!


Lest Love should value less

What Loss would value more,

Had it the stricken privilege—

It cherishes before.

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