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AS BY THE DEAD WE LOVE TO SIT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: To our penurious eyes!
Subject(s): LIFE;

As by the dead we love to sit,
Become so wondrous dear -
As for the lost we grapple
Tho' all the rest are here -

In broken mathematics
We estimate our prize
Vast - in its fading ration
To our penurious eyes!



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