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Early American Poets » Emily Dickinson » Emily Dickinson’s Poetry » Poems Series One » If I can stop one heart from breaking

If I can stop one heart from breaking

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.

 

– Emily Dickinson

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