Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carr…

Emily Dickinson
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ✨ Because I could not stop for death l. 1 (ca. 1862)
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ✨ Because I could not stop for death l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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