Read the poem: “One dignity delays for all”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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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.

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Coach it insures, and footmen,

Chamber and state and throng;

Bells, also, in the village,

As we ride grand along.

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What dignified attendants,

What service when we pause!

How loyally at parting

Their hundred hats they raise!

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How pomp surpassing ermine,

When simple you and I

Present our meek escutcheon,

And claim the rank to die!

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< < < On this long storm the rainbow rose
Our share of night to bear > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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