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B. Penn

684: Best Gains – must have the Losses' Test 

684

Best Gains – must have the Losses' Test – 
To constitute them – Gains – 

c. 1863                                                    1891

685

Not "Revelation" – 'tis – that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes – 

c. 1863                                                    1891

Both poems by Emily Dickinson
from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 
edited by Thomas H. Johnson

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