A sickness of this world it most occasions
When best men die;
A wishfulness their far condition
To occupy.
A chief indifference, as foreign
A world must be
Themselves forsake contented,
For Deity.
A Sickness Of This World It Most Occasions
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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