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Lyric Poem · Love

Whatever it is—she has tried it

by Emily Dickinson

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 lonely

In thy beautiful House

Give her for her Transgression

License to think of us —

This poem is in the public domain.

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