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And this of all my Hopes

by Emily Dickinson

19th-Century American · Short · 8 lineshope

And this of all my Hopes This, is the silent end Bountiful colored, my Morning rose Early and sere, its end Never Bud from a Stem Stepped with so gay a Foot Never a Worm so confident Bored at so brave a Root

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