132. “It struck me every day.” Part Four: Time and Eternity. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

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IT struck me every day
The lightning was as new
As if the cloud that instant slit
And let the fire through.

It burned me in the night,	5
It blistered in my dream;
It sickened fresh upon my sight
With every morning’s beam.

I thought that storm was brief,—
The maddest, quickest by;	10
But Nature lost the date of this,
And left it in the sky.