Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a gi…

Emily Dickinson
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Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes (2011). Emily Dickinson, p.52, Faber & Faber
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