Because I Could Not Stop for Death

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Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality We slowly drove, he knew no haste And I put away My labor, and my leisure too For his civility We passed the school where children played At wrestling in a ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain We passed the setting sun We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground: The roof was scarcely visible The cornice but a mound Since then 'tis centuries; but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity