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To tell the Beauty would decrease

Emily Dickinson·1830–1886
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To tell the Beauty would decreaseTo state the Spell demean --There is a syllable-less SeaOf which it is the sign --My will endeavors for its wordAnd fails, but entertainsA Rapture as of Legacies --Of introspective Mines --