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I fit for them

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

LXXXII.

IFIT for them,

I seek the dark till I am thorough fit.

The labor is a solemn one,

With this sufficient sweet—

That abstinence as mine produce

A purer good for them,

If I succeed,—

If not, I had

The transport of the Aim.

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