Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR DEATH, - OR RATHER, by EMILY DICKINSON



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Last Line: For the rates — lie here
Subject(s): Life; Death


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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