Read the poem: “A Country Burial”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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A Country Burial

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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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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