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Each Second is the last

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Each Second is the last by Emily Dickinson

 Each Second is the last
Perhaps, recalls the Man
Just measuring unconsciousness
The Sea and Spar between.

To fail within a Chance --
How terribler a thing
Than perish from the Chance's list
Before the Perishing!

Form: Free verse

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