Pain has an element of blank

Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.

It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Sergius Kagen (1909-1964) , "Pain has an element of blank", published 1956 [voice and clarinet or chamber orchestra], from The Mob Within the Heart, no. ?
by Robert Starer , "Pain has an element of blank", published 1969 [SATB chorus a cappella], from On the Nature of Things, no. ?

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