so helpless to conceive

My life closed twice before its close; 

It yet remains to see 

If immortality unveil 

A third even to me 

So huge, so helpless to conceive

As these that twice befell.

Parting is all we know of heaven,

And all we need of hell.

 

[Emily Dickinson {1830-1886} 'Parting' or 'My life closed twice before its close']