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If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson

By The Sunday Paper Team
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If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson

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.

—Emily Dickinson

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