Suspense

IV. SUSPENSE.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity or doom. What fortitude the soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming foot, The opening of a door !

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"Alter? When the hills do"	Surrender

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