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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 85. They say that 'time assuages'

They say that 'time assuages,' --

Time never did assuage;

An actual suffering strengthens,

As sinews do, with age.


Time is a test of trouble,

But not a remedy.

If such it prove, it prove too

There was no malady.

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