That she forgot me was the least

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

I felt it second pain,

That I was worthy to forget

Was most I thought upon.


Faithful, was all that I could boast,

But Constancy became,

To her, by her innominate,

A something like a shame.

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