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IV ROUGE GAGNE
Life
IV ROUGE GAGNE, LIFE by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!
If I should fail, what poverty!
And yet, as poor as I
Have ventured all upon a throw;
Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
This side the victory!
Life is but life, and death but death!
Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
And if, indeed, I fail,
At least to know the worst is sweet.
Defeat means nothing but defeat,
No drearier can prevail!
And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
Oh, bells that in the steeples be,
At first repeat it slow!
For heaven is a different thing
Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
And might o'erwhelm me so!
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Life  I SUCCESS II III ROUGE ET NOIR IV ROUGE GAGNE V VI VII ALMOST! VIII IX X IN A LIBRARY XI XII XIII EXCLUSION XIV THE SECRET XV THE LONELY HOUSE XVI XVII DAWN XVIII THE BOOK OF MARTYRS XIX THE MYSTERY OF PAIN XX XXI A BOOK XXII XXIII UNRETURNING XXIV XXV XXVI |
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