Emily Dickinson

There Is a Languor of the Life

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There is a Languor of the Life
More imminent than Pain—
’Tis Pain’s Successor—When the Soul
Has suffered all it can—
 
A Drowsiness—diffuses—
A Dimness like a Fog
Envelops Consciousness—
As Mists—obliterate a Crag.
 
The Surgeon—does not blanch—at pain
His Habit—is severe—
But tell him that it ceased to feel—
The Creature lying there—
 
And he will tell you—skill is late—
A Mightier than He—
Has ministered before Him—
There’s no Vitality.
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