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TESTO DEL LIED

"How the Waters closed"
di Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

How the Waters closed above Him
We shall never know --
How He stretched His Anguish to us
That -- is covered too --
Spreads the Pond Her Base of Lilies
Bold above the Boy
Whose unclaimed Hat and Jacket
Sum the History --