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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 101. She laid her docile crescent down

THE MONUMENT.


She laid her docile crescent down,

And this mechanic stone

Still states, to dates that have forgot,

The news that she is gone.


So constant to its stolid trust,

The shaft that never knew,

It shames the constancy that fled

Before its emblem flew.