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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part One: Life

CXXXVIII

SOFTENED by Time’s consummate plush,
  How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood’s citadel
  And undermined the years!
  
Bisected now by bleaker griefs,        5
  We envy the despair
That devastated childhood’s realm,
  So easy to repair.

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