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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

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I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they said.

Source: c. 1864; Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1929.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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