Poems (Dickinson)/The Mystery of Pain
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For other versions of this work, see Pain—has an Element of Blank—.
XIX.
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN.
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive