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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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Death’s Waylaying not the sharpest
Of the thefts of Time—
There Marauds a sorer Robber,
Silence—is his name—
No Assault, nor any Menace
Doth betoken him.
But from Life’s consummate Cluster—
He supplants the Balm.
Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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