115. “A sickness of this world it most occasions.” Part Four: Time and Eternity. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Four: Time and Eternity

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A SICKNESS of this world it most occasions
When best men die;
A wishfulness their far condition
To occupy.
A chief indifference, as foreign	5
A world must be
Themselves forsake contented,
For Deity.