Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Denial—Is The Only Fact

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Denial—is the only fact
Perceived by the Denied—
Whose Will—a numb significance—
The Day the Heaven died—

And all the Earth strove common round—
Without Delight, or Beam—
What Comfort was it Wisdom—was—
The spoiler of Our Home?
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