Poem

As by the dead we love to sit

Emily Dickinson
88 As by the dead we love to sit, Become so wondrous dear— As for the lost we grapple Tho' all the rest are here— In broken mathematics We estimate our prize Vast—in its fading ration To our penurious eyes!

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