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Lyric Poem · Death & Loss

So give me back to Death

by Emily Dickinson

So give me back to Death —

The Death I never feared

Except that it deprived of thee —

And now, by Life deprived,

In my own Grave I breathe

And estimate its size —

Its size is all that Hell can guess —

And all that Heaven was —

This poem is in the public domain.

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