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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 262 of 446 · Second Series: Time and Eternity

A Country Burial

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Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.

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