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In this short Life that only lasts an hour (1292)

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In this short Life that only lasts an hour

How much - how little - is within our power

Emily Dickinson, “[In this short Life]” from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. Copyright © 1998 by

Emily Dickinson. Reprinted by permission of The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Dickinson poems are electronically reproduced courtesy of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College

from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, Ralph W. Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap

Press of Harvard University of Press, Copyright © 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)

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