Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| I READ my sentence steadily, | |
| Reviewed it with my eyes, | |
| To see that I made no mistake | |
| In its extremest clause,— | |
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| The date, and manner of the shame; | 5 |
| And then the pious form | |
| That “God have mercy” on the soul | |
| The jury voted him. | |
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| I made my soul familiar | |
| With her extremity, | 10 |
| That at the last it should not be | |
| A novel agony, | |
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| But she and Death, acquainted, | |
| Meet tranquilly as friends, | |
| Salute and pass without a hint— | 15 |
| And there the matter ends. | |
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