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THE SWEETS of Pillage can be known
To no one but the Thief,
Compassion for Integrity
Is his divinest Grief.
--
p. 299. The Single Hound.

 

Emily Dickinson

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I'll example you with thievery:
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Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
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