By Emily Dickinson
Date: 31 December 2000
If I Could Stop One Heart From Breaking
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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