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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 397 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Immortality

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It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one's hat, As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street,

That we've immortal place, Though pyramids decay, And kingdoms, like the orchard, Flit russetly away.

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