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There is a finished feeling

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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There is a finished feeling
Experienced at Graves-
A leisure of the Future-
A Wilderness of Size.

By Death's bold Exhibition
Preciser what we are
And the Eternal function
Enabled to infer.




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