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THE FIRST LESSON by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: NOT IN THIS WORLD TO SEE HIS FACE
Last Line: HIMSELF COULD HAVE THE SKIES.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Not in this world to see his face
Sounds long, until I read the place
Where this is said to be
But just the primer to a life
Unopened, rare, upon the shelf,
Clasped yet to him and me.
And yet, my primer suits me so
I could not choose a book to know
Than that, be sweeter wise;
Might some one else so learned be,
And leave me just my A B C,
Himself could have the skies.



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