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

Part Four: Time and Eternity

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A SICKNESS of this world it most occasions
    When best men die;
A wishfulness their far condition
    To occupy.
A chief indifference, as foreign        5
    A world must be
Themselves forsake contented,
    For Deity.

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