Time feels so vast that were it not

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Time feels so vast that were it not by Emily Dickinson

 Time feels so vast that were it not
For an Eternity --
I fear me this Circumference
Engross my Finity --

To His exclusion, who prepare
By Processes of Size
For the Stupendous Vision
Of his diameters --

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