Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
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Title
Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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XXXV.
IT was not death, for I stood up,And all the dead lie down;It was not night, for all the bellsPut out their tongues, for noon.
It was not frost, for on my fleshI felt siroccos crawl, —Nor fire, for just my marble feetCould keep a chancel cool.
And yet it tasted like them all;The figures I have seenSet orderly, for burial,Reminded me of mine,
As if my life were shavenAnd fitted to a frame,And could not breathe without a key;And 't was like midnight, some,
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When everything that ticked has stopped,And space stares, all around,Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground.
But most like chaos, — stopless, cool, —Without a chance or spar,Or even a report of landTo justify despair.
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