by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Void
Language: English 
Great streets of silence led away
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.

By clocks 't was morning, and for night
The bells at distance called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.

Confirmed with Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series, Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1891


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