#twas comfort in her dying room

“’Twas comfort in her Dying Room
To hear the living Clock—
A short relief to have the wind
Walk boldly up and knock—
Diversion from the Dying Theme
To hear the children play—
But wrong the more
That these could live
And this of ours must die.”

“’Twas comfort in her Dying Room,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson — ed. Thomas H. Johnson