Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

A Word

A word is dead
When it is said,
  Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
  That day.

1. On the Tleakness of My Lot
2. Possession
3. The Moon Is Distant from the Sea
4. The Oriole
5. Triumph

Gilbert Chesterton A Word ("A word came forth in Galilee, a word like to a star")

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