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The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

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Author: Emily Dickinson | Date: 1914

CXXXI.

HAD this one day not been,

Or could it cease to be-

How smitten, how superfluous

Were every other day!

Lest Love should value less

What Loss would value more,

Had it the stricken privilege-

It cherishes before.

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Chicago: Emily Dickinson, "CXXXI.," The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime Original Sources, accessed July 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U67MM3C7YUQW8XE.

MLA: Dickinson, Emily. "CXXXI." The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, Original Sources. 3 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U67MM3C7YUQW8XE.

Harvard: Dickinson, E, 'CXXXI.' in The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Original Sources, retrieved 3 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U67MM3C7YUQW8XE.