Apocalypse

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

I'm wife; I've finished that,

That other state;

I'm Czar, I'm woman now:

It's safer so.


How odd the girl's life looks

Behind this soft eclipse!

I think that earth seems so

To those in heaven now.


This being comfort, then

That other kind was pain;

But why compare?

I'm wife! stop there!

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