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WE LEARN IN THE RETREATING by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: It was — before
Subject(s): LEARNING;
We learn it in Retreating
How vast an one
Was recently among us -
A Perished Sun

Endear in the departure
How doubly more
Than all the Golden presence
It was - before



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