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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 392 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Ending

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That is solemn we have ended, -- Be it but a play, Or a glee among the garrets, Or a holiday,

Or a leaving home; or later, Parting with a world We have understood, for better Still it be unfurled.

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