Poems — Third Series by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd

So Proud She Was to Die

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed.

So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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