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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 19 of 446 · First Series: Life

The Mystery Of Pain

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Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain.

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