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Lyric Poem · Peace

Joy to have merited the Pain

by Emily Dickinson

Joy to have merited the Pain —

To merit the Release —

Joy to have perished every step —

To Compass Paradise —

Pardon — to look upon thy face —

With these old fashioned Eyes —

Better than new — could be — for that —

Though bought in Paradise —

Because they looked on thee before —

And thou hast looked on them —

Prove Me — My Hazel Witnesses

The features are the same —

So fleet thou wert, when present —

So infinite — when gone —

An Orient's Apparition —

Remanded of the Morn —

The Height I recollect —

'Twas even with the Hills —

The Depth upon my Soul was notched —

As Floods — on Whites of Wheels —

To Haunt — till Time have dropped

His last Decade away,

And Haunting actualize — to last

At least — Eternity —

This poem is in the public domain.

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