A 850: etext transcription

This extrageneric fragment may be a passage destined for incorporation into a letter, notes toward a poem, or an autonomous pensée. Dickinson appears to have revised the fragment both during the initial drive of composition, first canceling the lines "before our | own comprehen | sion" and composing the variant lines "an Exclu | sion from com | prehension" immediately following them, and later, after finishing a preliminary draft of the text, at which point she composed another variant for the canceled lines, "preliminary to our own," sideways along the right edge of the paper. At this time she may also have canceled the word "strange" and penciled the variant "amazing" sideways along the left edge of the paper.