- Robert Browning

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Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly,

May gaze through these faint smokes curling whitely,

As thou pliest thy trade in this devil's-smithy--

Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?

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To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.

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A Loss of Something Ever Felt I --

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Emily Dickinson·1830–1886·Lyric·American lyric poetry

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loss of something ever felt I --

The first that I could recollect

Bereft I was -- of what I knew not

Too young that any should suspect

A Mourner walked among the children

I notwithstanding went about

As one bemoaning a Dominion

Itself the only Prince cast out --

Elder, Today, a session wiser

And fainter, too, as Wiseness is --

I find myself still softly searching

For my Delinguent Palaces --

And a Suspicion, like a Finger

Touches my Forehead now and then

That I am looking oppositely

For the site of the Kingdom of Heaven --

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