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

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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.

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About Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Virtually unknown in her lifetime, Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Although she wrote (at latest count) 1789 poems, only a few of them were published in her lifetime, all anonymously, and some perhaps without her knowledge.

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