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They have not chosen me, he said,

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

"They have not chosen me," he said,
"But I have chosen them!"
Brave-Broken hearted statement-
Uttered in Bethlehem!

I could not have told it,
But since Jesus dared-
Sovereign! Know a Daisy
They dishonor shared!




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