Poems: Third Series/Childish Griefs

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Poems: Third Series
Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 70

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LV.

CHILDISH GRIEFS.

SOFTENED by Time's consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood's citadel
And undermined the years!

Bisected now by bleaker griefs,
We envy the despair
That devastated childhood's realm,
So easy to repair.

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