Emily Dickinson
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.
Previously:
- ‘life is a loaded gun’
- ‘The last shall be the lightest load’
- The Reticent Volcano
- ‘Melts to A Shriek—Wrecked, Solitary, Here…’
- ‘Inebriate of Air Am I, Debauchee of Dew!’
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