They say that 'time assuages'

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

      Time never did assuage;

An actual suffering strengthens,

      As sinews do, with age.


Time is a test of trouble,

      But not a remedy.

If such it prove, it prove too

      There was no malady.

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