879 <br /> <br />Each Second is the last <br />Perhaps, recalls the Man <br />Just measuring unconsciousness <br />The Sea and Spar between. <br /> <br />To fail within a Chance— <br />How terribler a thing <br />Than perish from the Chance's list <br />Before the Perishing!<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/each-second-is-the-last/
