by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

You left me, sweet, two legacies, —
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You left me, sweet, two legacies, —
  A legacy of love
A Heavenly Father would content,
  Had He the offer of;

You left me boundaries of pain
  Capacious as the sea,
Between eternity and time,
  Your consciousness and me.

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Confirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.

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