A Country Burial

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

Ample make this bed.

      Make this bed with awe;

In it wait till judgment break

Excellent and fair.


Be its mattress straight,

Be its pillow round;

Let no sunrise' yellow noise

Interrupt this ground.

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