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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XV


NO other can reduce
Our mortal consequence,
Like the remembering it be nought
A period from hence.
But contemplation for        5
Cotemporaneous nought
Our single competition;
Jehovah’s estimate.

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