Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.
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For the things ’t will buy,
These put away
Life’s opportunity.
The things that Death will buy
Are Room,—Escape
From Circumstances,
And a Name.
How gifts of Life
With Death’s gifts will compare,
We know not—
For the rates stop Here.