Poems by Emily Dickinson: II ("We learn in the retreating")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
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We learn in the retreating
How vast an one
Was recently among us.
A perished sun
Endears in the departure
How doubly more
Than all the golden presence
It was before!
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