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

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXXV

TO love thee, year by year,

May less appear

Than sacrifice and cease.

However, Dear,

Forever might be short

I thought, to show,

And so I pieced it with a flower now.