“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for m…”

“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility –”

— Emily Dickinson

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Because I could not stop for Death (J)

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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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