Pain is the Junior Party
By just a Second's right --
Death tenderly assists Him
And then absconds from Sight.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Commemorative DishonorOr love annealed of love
Until it bend as low as Death
Redignified, above?
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Double Estate -- entailed at pleasure
Upon an unsuspecting Heir --
Duke in a moment of Deathlessness
And God, for a Frontier.
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A better Coat if he possessed
Would help him to conceal,
Not subjugate, the Mutineer
Whose title is "the Soul.
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The Maker's cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.
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Not for itself, the Dust is shy,
But, enemy, Beloved be
Thy Batteries divorce.
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We trust, in plumed procession
For such, the Angels go --
Rank after Rank, with even feet --
And Uniforms of Snow.
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