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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 139. A long, long sleep, a famous sleep

SLEEPING.


A long, long sleep, a famous sleep

That makes no show for dawn

By stretch of limb or stir of lid, --

An independent one.


Was ever idleness like this?

Within a hut of stone

To bask the centuries away

Nor once look up for noon?

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