Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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XXVIII.
AT LENGTH.

HER final summer was it, And yet we guessed it not; If tenderer industriousness Pervaded her, we thought
A further force of life Developed from within, — When Death lit all the shortness up, And made the hurry plain.
We wondered at our blindness, — When nothing was to see But her Carrara guide-post, — At our stupidity,
When, duller than our dulness, The busy darling lay, So busy was she, finishing, So leisurely were we!

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