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A Sickness of this World it most occasions

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A Sickness of this World it most occasions by Emily Dickinson

 A Sickness of this World it most occasions
When Best Men die.
A Wishfulness their far Condition
To occupy.

A Chief indifference, as Foreign
A World must be
Themselves forsake -- contented,
For Deity.

Form: Lyric

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