Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Bequest

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.

1. A Service of Song
2. Love’s Baptism
3. The Sea of Sunset
4. Rouge et Noir
5. Unreturning

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