All forgot for recollecting

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All forgot for recollecting
Just a paltry One –
All forsook, for just a Stranger’s
New Accompanying –

Grace of Wealth, and Grace of Station
Less accounted than
An unknown Esteem possessing –
Estimate – Who can –

Home effaced – Her faces dwindled –
Nature – altered small –
Sun – if shone – or Storm – if shattered –
Overlooked I all –

Dropped – my fate – a timid Pebble –
In thy bolder Sea –
Prove – me – Sweet – if I regret it –
Prove Myself – of Thee –

by Emily Dickinson