One pause upon the brink of life

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One pause upon the brink of life
by Emily Brontë
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ONE pause upon the brink of life,
Before it breaks, in headlong strife,
Upon its downward road;
One insight through the waters clear,
Before their pictures disappear
In the fierce foaming flood.