The overtakelessness of those

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

Who have accomplished Death,

Majestic is to me beyond

The majesties of Earth.


The soul her "not at Home"

Inscribes upon the flesh,

And takes her fair aerial gait

Beyond the hope of touch.

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