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Safe Despair it is that raves --

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Safe Despair it is that raves -- by Emily Dickinson

 Safe Despair it is that raves --
Agony is frugal.
Puts itself severe away
For its own perusal.

Garrisoned no Soul can be
In the Front of Trouble --
Love is one, not aggregate --
Nor is Dying double --

Form: Lyric

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