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After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs— - Emily Dickinson Attribution: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. repr. in The Complete Poems, no. 341, Harvard variorum edition (1955). After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (written c. 1862, published 1929).

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