Pompless no life can pass away

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

      The lowliest career

To the same pageant wends its way

      As that exalted here.

How cordial is the mystery!

      The hospitable pall

A "this way" beckons spaciously,—

      A miracle for all!

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