Ending

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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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