Dickinson/Higginson Correspondence: Poem 1464

poems sent from dickinson to higginson

One thing of it we borrow
And promise to return -
The Booty and the Sorrow
It's Sweetness to have known -
One thing of it we covet -
The power to forget -
The Anguish of the Avarice
Defrays the Dross of it -

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