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A COUNTRY BURIAL by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: AMPLE MAKE THIS BED
Last Line: INTERRUPT THIS GROUND.
Subject(s): DEATH; GRAVES; DEAD, THE; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.
Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise' yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.


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