Were it to be the last by Emily Dickinson

Будь он последний нам,
сколь вечным стать бы мог
наш, ставший тем, что нам не знать,
финальный диалог.




[About late February 1870,  in a letter
to Emily's Aunt Catherine Dickinson Sweetser,
whose son Henry died on 17 February.]

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Were it to be the last by Emily Dickinson

Were it to be the last               
How infinite would be               
What we did not suspect was marked --   
Our final interview.               


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