Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

If Those I Loved Were Lost

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If those I loved were lost
The Crier's voice would tell me—
If those I loved were found
The bells of Ghent would ring—

Did those I loved repose
The Daisy would impel me.
Philip—when bewildered
Bore his riddle in!
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