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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

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LOW at my problem bending,

Another problem comes,

Larger than mine, serener,

Involving statelier sums;

I check my busy pencil,

My ciphers slip away,

Wherefore, my baffled fingers,

Time Eternity?