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This is my letter to the World

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

This is my letter to the world,
  That never wrote to me, —
The simple news that Nature told,
  With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
  To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
  Judge tenderly of me!

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