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NUMBER:16394
QUOTATION:It passes, and we stay:

A quality of loss
Affecting our content,
As trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a sacrament.
ATTRIBUTION:Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. A light exists in spring (l. 16–20). . .

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Dickinson Collection.
 
 
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