Cover art for The Mystery of Pain by Emily Dickinson

The Mystery of Pain

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The Mystery of Pain Lyrics

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

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  1. 17.
    Dawn
  2. 19.
    The Mystery of Pain
  3. 21.
    A Book
  4. 27.
    Mine
  5. 34.
    Proof
  6. 47.
    Why
  7. 66.
    A Day
  8. 72.
    Autumn
  9. 87.
    Real
  10. 91.
    Refuge
  11. 100.
    Dying
  12. 111.
    Lost
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