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A TRAIN WENT THROUGH A BURIAL GATE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: To say good-by to men
Subject(s): FUNERALS;

A train went through a burial gate,
A bird broke forth and sang,
And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat
Till all the churchyard rang ;

And then adjusted his little notes,
And bowed and sang again.
Doubtless, he thought it meet of him
To say good-by to men



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