If I could tell how glad I was

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

I should not be so glad,

But when I cannot make the Force

Nor mould it into word,

I know it is a sign

That new Dilemma be

From mathematics further off,

Than from Eternity.

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