My life closed twice before its close – Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close

My life closed twice before its close
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Emily Dickinson

My life closed twice before its close;

It yet remains to see

If Immortality unveil

A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive,

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell.

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