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

Part Three: Love

XXVIII


A CHARM invests a face
Imperfectly beheld,—
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.
  
But peers beyond her mesh,        5
And wishes, and denies,—
Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies.

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