Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| THREE weeks passed since I had seen her, | |
| Some disease had vexed; | |
| T was with text and village singing | |
| I beheld her next, | |
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| And a companyour pleasure | 5 |
| To discourse alone; | |
| Gracious now to me as any, | |
| Gracious unto none. | |
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| Borne, without dissent of either, | |
| To the parish night; | 10 |
| Of the separated people | |
| Which are out of sight? | |
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