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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 390 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 3

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They say that 'time assuages,' -- Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age.

Time is a test of trouble, But not a remedy. If such it prove, it prove too There was no malady.

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