To tell the Beauty would decrease

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To tell the Beauty would decrease (1914)
by Emily Dickinson
1700
14452To tell the Beauty would decrease — 1700Emily Dickinson

To tell the Beauty would decrease
To state the Spell demean —
There is a syllable-less Sea
Of which it is the sign —
My will endeavors for its word
And fails, but entertains
A Rapture as of Legacies —
Of introspective Mines —


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