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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 294 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Parting

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My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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