Friday, March 2, 2007

A favorite...

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
and Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round -
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought -
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone -

This is the Hour of Lead
Remembered, if outlived
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow-
First - Chill - the Stupor - then the letting go -

-Emily Dickinson

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