Poems by Emily Dickinson: III ("The say that 'time assuages'")

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by EmilyDickinson
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They say that 'time assuages,' —
Time never did assuage;
An actual suffering strengthens,
As sinews do, with age.
Time is a test of trouble,
But not a remedy.
If such it prove, it prove too
There was no malady.
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