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Non omnis moriar

I know that he exists

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. I know that he exists
  2. Somewhere, in silence.
  3. He has hid his rare life
  4. From our gross eyes.
  5.  
  6. 'T is an instant's play,
  7. 'T is a fond ambush,
  8. Just to make bliss
  9. Earn her own surprise!
  10.  
  11. But should the play
  12. Prove piercing earnest,
  13. Should the glee glaze
  14. In death's stiff stare,
  15.  
  16. Would not the fun
  17. Look too expensive?
  18. Would not the jest
  19. Have crawled too far?

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