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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 26. Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

Two swimmers wrestled on the spar

Until the morning sun,

When one turned smiling to the land.

O God, the other one!


The stray ships passing spied a face

Upon the waters borne,

With eyes in death still begging raised,

And hands beseeching thrown.