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Summer is shorter than any one --

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Summer is shorter than any one -- by Emily Dickinson

 Summer is shorter than any one --
Life is shorter than Summer --
Seventy Years is spent as quick
As an only Dollar --

Sorrow -- now -- is polite -- and stays --
See how well we spurn him --
Equally to abhor Delight --
Equally retain him --

Form: Lyric

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