I shall know why, when time is over

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

1890

I shall know why, when time is over,And I have ceased to wonder why;Christ will explain each separate anguishIn the fair schoolroom of the sky.

He will tell me what Peter promised,And I, for wonder at his woe,I shall forget the drop of anguishThat scalds me now, that scalds me now.

From Poems (1890), the first published collection, via the English Wikisource transcription.

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