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Emily Dickinson Quotes

While we were fearing it, it came –
But came with less of fear
Because that fearing it so long
Had almost made it fair –

Source:Poem no. 1277: While we were fearing it, it came; in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. Little, Brown & Co., 1960), Page 558
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  • Name: Emily Dickinson
  • Profession: Poet
  • Born: December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886
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