Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
LII
|
| AS by the dead we love to sit, | |
| Become so wondrous dear, | |
| As for the lost we grapple, | |
| Though all the rest are here, | |
| |
| In broken mathematics | 5 |
| We estimate our prize, | |
| Vast, in its fading ratio, | |
| To our penurious eyes! | |
|
|