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Whether they have forgotten

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Whether they have forgotten by Emily Dickinson

 Whether they have forgotten
Or are forgetting now
Or never remembered --
Safer not to know --

Miseries of conjecture
Are a softer woe
Than a Fact of Iron
Hardened with I know --

Form: Lyric

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