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To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Emily Dickinson
Happiness, Past, Joy
Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.412, Harvard University Press
To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.