Our share of night to bear

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

Our share of morning,

Our blank in bliss to fill,

Our blank in scorning.


Here a star, and there a star,

Some lose their way.

Here a mist, and there a mist,

Afterwards—day!

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