Our Share of Night to Bear

Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890

OUR share of night to bear,Our share of morning,Our blank in bliss to fill,Our blank in scorning.

Here a star, and there a star,Some lose their way.Here a mist, and there a mist,Afterwards—day!

From Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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