Emily Dickinson

Bereavement in their death to feel

645 Bereavement in their death to feel Whom We have never seen — A Vital Kinsmanship import Our Soul and theirs — between — For Stranger — Strangers do not mourn — There be Immortal friends Whom Death see first — 'tis news of this That paralyze Ourselves — Who, vital only to Our Thought — Such Presence bear away In dying — 'tis as if Our Souls Absconded — suddenly —