Read the poem: “The Funeral”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Funeral

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That short, potential stir

That each can make but once,

That bustle so illustrious

‘T is almost consequence,

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Is the eclat of death.

Oh, thou unknown renown

That not a beggar would accept,

Had he the power to spurn!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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