957 <br /> <br />As One does Sickness over <br />In convalescent Mind, <br />His scrutiny of Chances <br />By blessed Health obscured— <br /> <br />As One rewalks a Precipice <br />And whittles at the Twig <br />That held Him from Perdition <br />Sown sidewise in the Crag <br /> <br />A Custom of the Soul <br />Far after suffering <br />Identity to question <br />For evidence't has been—<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-one-does-sickness-over/
