One Dignity Delays For All

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Title:     One Dignity Delays For All
Author: Emily Dickinson [More Titles by Dickinson]

One dignity delays for all,
One mitred afternoon.
None can avoid this purple,
None evade this crown.

Coach it insures, and footmen,
Chamber and state and throng;
Bells, also, in the village,
As we ride grand along.

What dignified attendants,
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!

How pomp surpassing ermine,
When simple you and I
Present our meek escutcheon,
And claim the rank to die!

[The end]
Emily Dickinson's poem: One Dignity Delays For All

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