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Read the poem: “If I may have it when it’s dead”

by Emily Dickinson

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If I may have it when it’s dead


If I may have it when it’s dead

   I will contented be;

If just as soon as breath is out

   It shall belong to me,


Until they lock it in the grave,

   ‘T is bliss I cannot weigh,

For though they lock thee in the grave,

   Myself can hold the key.


Think of it, lover! I and thee

   Permitted face to face to be;

After a life, a death we’ll say, —

   For death was that, and this is thee.



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