#1049Pain has but one Acquaintance
And that is Death --
Each one unto the other
Society enough.
Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second's right --
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight.
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#650
Pain - has an Elements of Blank -
It cannot recollect
When it begun - or if there were
A time when it was not -
It has no Future - but itself -
Its Infinite contain
Its Past - enlightenment to perceive
New Periods - of Pain.
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Thomas H. Johnson Edition
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