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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 28 of 446 · First Series: Love

Bequest

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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.

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