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If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Complete text of the three posthumous series edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (1890, 1891, 1896), with their editorial titles and regularized punctuation. Public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 8412-8610; checksum c99de4aa77b54563bc450ed4adad796d1c2f014e54733b15387b6b4eb04437d5.
# If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
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.