If I Should Cease To Bring A Rose

Emily Dickinson

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If I should cease to bring a Rose
Upon a festal day,
’Twill be because beyond the Rose
I have been called away—

If I should cease to take the names
My buds commemorate—
’Twill be because Death’s finger
Claps my murmuring lip!

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