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PARTING by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: MY LIFE CLOSED TWICE BEFORE ITS CLOSE
Last Line: AND ALL WE NEED OF HELL.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; DEATH; IMMORTALITY; LOVE; LOVE - LOSS OF; SEPARATION; ISOLATION; DEAD, THE;
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If immortality unveil
A third event to me,
.
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.


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