After great pain a formal feeling comes

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1. AFTER great pain a formal feeling comes--
2. The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
3. The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
4. And yesterday--or centuries before?
5.  
6. The feet mechanical go round
7. A wooden way
8. Of ground or air or Ought,
9. Regardless grown,
10. A quartz contentment like a stone.
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12. This is the hour of lead
13. Remembered if outlived
14. As freezing persons recollect
15. The snow--
16. First chill, then stupor, then
17. The letting go.