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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 88 of 446 · First Series: Time and Eternity

The Funeral

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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious 'T is almost consequence,

Is the eclat of death. Oh, thou unknown renown That not a beggar would accept, Had he the power to spurn!

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