If I can stop one heart | Emily Dickinson

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                      Part One: Life

                            VI

If I can stop one heart
from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

_ EMILY DICKINSON (1830 - 1886)

Uit: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston, 1924

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