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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXIV

THE DIFFERENCE between despair

And fear, is like the one

Between the instant of a wreck,

And when the wreck has been.

The mind is smooth,—no motion—

Contented as the eye

Upon the forehead of a Bust,

That knows it cannot see.