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THE ECLAT OF DEATH by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: HAD HE THE POWER TO SPURN!
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
THAT short, potential stir
That each can make but once,
That bustle so illustrious
'T is almost consequence,

Is the eclat of death.
Oh, thou unknown renown
That not a beggar would accept,
Had he the power to spurn!



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