Low at my problem bending

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

Another problem comes,

Larger than mine, serener,

Involving statelier sums;

I check my busy pencil.

My ciphers slip away,

Wherefore, my baffled fingers,

Time Eternity?

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