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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

LXXII

FOR Death,—or rather

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.