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

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXXXVIII

SAFE Despair it is that raves,
Agony is frugal,
Puts itself severe away
For its own perusal.
  
Garrisoned no Soul can be        5
In the front of Trouble,
Love is one, not aggregate,
Nor is Dying double.

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