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To offer brave assistance

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To offer brave assistance by Emily Dickinson

 To offer brave assistance
To Lives that stand alone --
When One has failed to stop them --
Is Human -- but Divine

To lend an Ample Sinew
Unto a Nameless Man --
Whose Homely Benediction
No other -- stopped to earn --

Form: Ballad

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