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A sickness of this world it most occasions

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

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.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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