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You left me, sweet, two legacies, —

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

You left me, sweet, two legacies, —
A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
Your consciousness and me.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson
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