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We learn in the retreating

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

We learn in the retreating
  How vast an one
Was recently among us.
  A perished sun

Endears in the departure
  How doubly more
Than all the golden presence
  It was before!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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