The saddest noise, the sweetest noise
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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Almost too heavenly near.
An ear can break a human heart
The saddest noise, the sweetest noise,
Made cruelly more dear.
The maddest noise that grows, --
And what we now deplore.
Would go and sing no more.
By separation's sorcery
Between the March and April line --
Beyond which summer hesitates,
That sauntered with us here,
It makes us think of what we had,
So dangerously near.
We wish the ear had not a heart
As quickly as a spear,
At night's delicious close.
It makes us think of all the dead
We almost wish those siren throats
The birds, they make it in the spring,
That magical frontier
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