"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. 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 !

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"There's a certain slant of light"	Too late

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