There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss w…

Emily Dickinson
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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia
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There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it. ✨ Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Alfred Leete Hampson (1929). Further poems of Emily Dickinson: withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia

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