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If Blame be my side -- forfeit Me --

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If Blame be my side -- forfeit Me -- by Emily Dickinson

 If Blame be my side -- forfeit Me --
But doom me not to forfeit Thee --
To forfeit Thee? The very name
Is sentence from Belief -- and House --

Form: Lyric

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