Read the poem: “Life, and Death, and Giants”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < Let down the bars, O Death!
Like mighty footlights burned the red > > >

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Life, and Death, and Giants

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Life, and Death, and Giants

   Such as these, are still.

Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill,

Beetle at the candle,

   Or a fife’s small fame,

Maintain by accident

   That they proclaim.

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< < < Let down the bars, O Death!
Like mighty footlights burned the red > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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