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Emily Dickinson

686

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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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1863

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