I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading _ treading _ till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through _ And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum _ Kept beating _ beating _ till I thoughtMy Mind was going numb _ And then I heard them lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space _ began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here _ And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down _ And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing _ then _
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading _ treading _ till it seemedThat Sense was breaking through _ And when they all were seated,A Service, like a Drum _ Kept beating _ beating _ till I thoughtMy Mind was going numb _ And then I heard them lift a BoxAnd creak across my SoulWith those same Boots of Lead, again,Then Space _ began to toll,As all the Heavens were a Bell,And Being, but an Ear,And I, and Silence, some strange RaceWrecked, solitary, here _ And then a Plank in Reason, broke,And I dropped down, and down _ And hit a World, at every plunge,And Finished knowing _ then _
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