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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 128. The past is such a curious creature

THE PAST.


The past is such a curious creature,

To look her in the face

A transport may reward us,

Or a disgrace.


Unarmed if any meet her,

I charge him, fly!

Her rusty ammunition

Might yet reply!

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