“Upon the gallows hung a wretch,
Too sullied for the hell
To which the law entitled him.
As nature’s curtain fell
The one who bore him tottered in,
For this was woman’s son.
“’T was all I had,” she stricken gasped;
Oh, what a livid boon!”

—  Emily Dickinson, Life, and Death, and Giants —

Source: Collected Poems (1993), p. 56. Life.

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