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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

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GOD permits industrious angels
Afternoons to play.
I met one,—forgot my school-mates,
All, for him, straightway.
  
God calls home the angels promptly        5
At the setting sun;
I missed mine. How dreary marbles,
After playing Crown!

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