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Poems by Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
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Poems by Emily Dickinson
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XIII.
THE FUNERAL.
That
short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'T is almost consequence,
Is the
éclat
of death.
Oh, thou unknown renown
That not a beggar would accept,
Had he the power to spurn!
Poems by Emily Dickinson