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Now I knew I lost her --

Emily Dickinson·1830–1886
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Now I knew I lost her --Not that she was gone --But Remoteness travelledOn her Face and Tongue. Alien, though adjoiningAs a Foreign Race --Traversed she though pausingLatitudeless Place. Elements Unaltered --Universe the sameBut Love's transmigration --Somehow this had come -- Henceforth to rememberNature took the DayI had paid so much for --His is PenuryNot who toils for FreedomOr for FamilyBut the RestitutionOf Idolatry.