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

Part Three: Love

II

YOU left me, sweet, two legacies,—

A legacy of love

A Heavenly Father would content,

Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain

Capacious as the sea,

Between eternity and time,

Your consciousness and me.