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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LXXX


LOW at my problem bending,
Another problem comes,
Larger than mine, serener,
Involving statelier sums;
I check my busy pencil,        5
My ciphers slip away,
Wherefore, my baffled fingers,
Time Eternity?

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