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EXCEPT TO HEAVEN, SHE IS NOUGHT by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: That made Existence — Home!
Subject(s): LIFE;
Except to Heaven, she is nought.
Except for Angels - lone.
Except to some wide-wandering Bee
A flower superfluous blown.

Except for winds - provincial.
Except by Butterflies
Unnoticed as a single dew
That on the Acre lies.

The smallest Housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the Lawn
And somebody has lost the face
That made Existence - Home!


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