"If I can stop one heart from breaking"

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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.


 
from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)


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