Myself can read the Telegrams

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Myself can read the Telegrams by Emily Dickinson

 Myself can read the Telegrams
A Letter chief to me
The Stock's advance and Retrograde
And what the Markets say

The Weather -- how the Rains
In Counties have begun.
'Tis News as null as nothing,
But sweeter so -- than none.

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