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Non omnis moriar

A death-blow is a life-blow to some

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. A death-blow is a life-blow to some
  2. Who, till they died, did not alive become;
  3. Who, had they lived, had died, but when
  4. They died, vitality begun.

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