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My life closed twice before its close --

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My life closed twice before its close -- by Emily Dickinson

 My life closed twice before its close --
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me

So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Form: Ballad

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