Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

For Death—or Rather -

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For Death—or rather
For the Things 'twould buy—
This—put away
Life's Opportunity—

The Things that Death will buy
Are Room—
Escape from Circumstances—
And a Name—

With Gifts of Life
How Death's Gifts may compare—
We know not—
For the Rates—lie Here—
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