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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 280 of 446 · Second Series: Time and Eternity

The Forgotten Grave

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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, -- Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled At the lone orthography Of the elder dead.

Winds of summer fields Recollect the way, -- Instinct picking up the key Dropped by memory.

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