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One dignity delays for all

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One dignity delays for all—

One mitred Afternoon—

None can avoid this purple—

None evade this Crown!

 

Coach, it insures, and footmen—

Chamber, and state, and throng—

Bells, also, in the village

As we ride grand along!

 

What dignified Attendants!

What service when we pause!

How loyally at parting

Their hundred hats they raise!

 

Her pomp surpassing ermine

When simple You, and I,

Present our meek escutheon

And claim the rank to die!

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Emily Dickinson
1830-1886 / Female / American
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