I shall know why when time is over

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

And I have ceased to wonder why;

Christ will explain each separate anguish

In the fair schoolroom of the sky.


He will tell me what Peter promised,

And I, for wonder at his woe,

I shall forget the drop of anguish

That scalds me now, that scalds me now.

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