Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/Suspense is hostiler than Death.

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SUSPENSE is hostiler than Death.
Death, tho' soever broad,
Is just Death, and cannot increase—
Suspense does not conclude,
But perishes to live anew,
But just anew to die,
Annihilation plated fresh
With Immortality.

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