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Our Share of Night to Bear
Emily Dickinson · 1890
Catalog grade guidance: 8–12 — Short lyric; Todd/Higginson text of the three early series.
9 content lines · 41 words · Est. recitation about 26 sec (approx.)
Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.
II. Our share of night to bear, Our share of morning, Our blank in bliss to fill, Our blank in scorning. Here a star, and there a star, Some lose their way. Here a mist, and there a mist, Afterwards -- day!