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The words the happy say

By Emily Dickinson

The words the happy say
Are paltry melody
But those the silent feel
Are beautiful —

This poem is in the public domain. Available in "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" (Back Bay Books, 1976), ed. Thomas H. Johnson.

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