Endow the Living -- with the Tears --

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Endow the Living -- with the Tears -- by Emily Dickinson

 Endow the Living -- with the Tears --
You squander on the Dead,
And They were Men and Women -- now,
Around Your Fireside --

Instead of Passive Creatures,
Denied the Cherishing
Till They -- the Cherishing deny --
With Death's Ethereal Scron --

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