| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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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 (18301886), U.S. poet. A light exists in spring (l. 1620). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickinson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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