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Read the poem: “Drowning is not so pitiful”

by Emily Dickinson

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Drowning is not so pitiful

Drowning is not so pitiful

   As the attempt to rise.

Three times, ‘t is said, a sinking man

   Comes up to face the skies,

And then declines forever

   To that abhorred abode

Where hope and he part company, —

   For he is grasped of God.

The Maker’s cordial visage,

   However good to see,

Is shunned, we must admit it,

   Like an adversity.


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Dying (I heard a fly buzz when I died) > > >

American LiteratureAmerican PoetryEmily Dickinson



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