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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 19. Pain has an element of blank


THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.


Pain has an element of blank;

It cannot recollect

When it began, or if there were

A day when it was not.


It has no future but itself,

Its infinite realms contain

Its past, enlightened to perceive

New periods of pain.

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