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Dickinson's Poetry
  

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PREFACE

This is my letter to the world,1
That never wrote to me,—
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed5
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!
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