Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/Rehearsal to ourselves

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Rehearsal to ourselves
Of a withdrawn delight
Affords a bliss like murder,
Omnipotent, acute.

We will not drop the dirk
Because we love the wound
The dirk commemorate,
Itself
Remind us that we did.

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