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BEREAVEMENT IS THEIR DEATH TO FEEL by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: IN DYING, 'TIS AS IF OUR SOULS %ABSCONDED SUDDENLY
Subject(s): DEATH;
Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen -
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs - between -


For Stranger - Strangers do not mourn -
There be Immortal friends
Whom Death see first - 'tis news of this
That paralyze Ourselves -


Who, vital only to Our Thought -
Such Presence bear away
In dying - 'tis as if Our Souls
Absconded - suddenly -




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