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After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, no. 341, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.

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