Emily Dickinson (183086). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| A LONG, long sleep, a famous sleep | |
| That makes no show for dawn | |
| By stretch of limb or stir of lid, | |
| An independent one. | |
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| Was ever idleness like this? | 5 |
| Within a hut of stone | |
| To bask the centuries away | |
| Nor once look up for noon? | |
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