Hillsdale College

If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking

by
Emily Dickinson

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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.


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