Bequest

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

You left me, sweet, two legacies,—

A legacy of love

A Heavenly Father would content,

Had He the offer of;


You left me boundaries of pain

Capacious as the sea,

Between eternity and time,

Your consciousness and me.

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