I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsus…

Emily Dickinson
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I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too - And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness. ✨ Emily Dickinson (1998). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.664, Harvard University Press
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