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Browse alphabetically through more than 9,000 words in Dickinson’s poetry, as defined in the Emily Dickinson Lexicon, based in part on her dictionary, Webster's 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language.
Of tolling bell I ask the cause.
"A soul has gone to heaven,"
I'm answered in a lonesome tone.
Is heaven then a prison?
That bells should ring till all should know
A soul had gone to heaven,
Would seem to me the proper way
more the way
A good news should be given.
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