Poems: Third Series/We learn in the retreating

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This world is not conclusion
Poems: Third Series
Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd
We learn in the retreating
They say that 'time assuages'
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 140

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II.

WE learn in the retreating
How vast an one
Was recently among us.
A perished sun

Endears in the departure
How doubly more
Than all the golden presence
It was before!

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