The Funeral

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

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!

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