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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

Cotemporaneous nought

Our single competition;

Jehovah’s estimate.