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Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1863
Pages
Pages 1

Too busy to stop for Death, a woman is called on by him instead, and their carriage rolls politely past school, fields and sunset toward a house barely visible in the ground.

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me;
Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson

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