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Emily Dickinson
1830-1886

"A Cemetery"

 

This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
   And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
   And frocks and curls.

This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion,
   Where Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,
   Then ceased like these.

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