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Whatever it is -- she has tried it --

Emily Dickinson·1830–1886
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Whatever it is -- she has tried it --Awful Father of Love --Is not Ours the chastising --Do not chastise the Dove -- Not for Ourselves, petition --Nothing is left to pray --When a subject is finished --Words are handed away -- Only lest she be lonelyIn thy beautiful HouseGive her for her TransgressionLicense to think of us --