We knew not that we were to live—

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

We knew not that we were to live —

Nor when — we are to die —

Our ignorance — our cuirass is —

We wear Mortality

As lightly as an Option Gown

Till asked to take it off —

By his intrusion, God is known —

It is the same with Life —

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