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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 280 of 446 · Second Series: Time and Eternity

The Forgotten Grave

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After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place, --
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace.

Weeds triumphant ranged,
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.

Winds of summer fields
Recollect the way, --
Instinct picking up the key
Dropped by memory.

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