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Light is sufficient to itself --

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Light is sufficient to itself -- by Emily Dickinson

 Light is sufficient to itself --
If Others want to see
It can be had on Window Panes
Some Hours in the Day.

But not for Compensation --
It holds as large a Glow
To Squirrel in the Himmaleh
Precisely, as to you.

Form: Lyric

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