My life closed twice before

Training rest-day ...

... and here's another from the pictured 2001 compilation - by the marvellous Emily Dickinson:


My life closed twice before its close

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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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)