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

Part Four: Time and Eternity

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A DEATH-BLOW is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died, vitality begun.

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