Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

The Hallowing Of Pain

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The hallowing of Pain
Like hallowing of Heaven,
Obtains at a corporeal cost—
The Summit is not given

To Him who strives severe
At middle of the Hill—
But He who has achieved the Top—
All—is the price of All—
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