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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 13. That short, potential stir

THE FUNERAL.


That short, potential stir

That each can make but once,

That bustle so illustrious

'T is almost consequence,


Is the eclat of death.

Oh, thou unknown renown

That not a beggar would accept,

Had he the power to spurn!