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The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying—this to Us Made Nature different

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Though I than He—may longer live He longer must—than I— For I have but the power to kill, Without—the power to die—

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Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.

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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers— Untouched by Morning And untouched by Noon— Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection—

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Remit as yet no grace, No furrow on the glow, Yet a druidic difference Enhances nature now.

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I could not die with you,

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We talked between the Rooms— Until the Moss had reached our lips— And covered up—our names—

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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

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Apparently with no surprise To any happy flower, The frost beheads it at its play

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes— The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs—

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I've seen a Dying Eye

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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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The privilege to die—

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The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death

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The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity.

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A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?

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Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .

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Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality.

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Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell

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Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

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