Each Second Is the Last, par Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Each Second Is the Last

879

Each Second is the last

Perhaps, recalls the Man

Just measuring unconsciousness

The Sea and Spar between.

To fail within a Chance—

How terribler a thing

Than perish from the Chance’s list

Before the Perishing!

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