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Color—Caste—Denomination—
These—are Time's Affair—
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are—
As in sleep—All Hue forgotten—
Tenets—put behind—
Death's large—Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand—
If Circassian—He is careless—
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde—or Umber—
Equal Butterfly—
They emerge from His Obscuring—
What Death—knows so well—
Our minuter intuitions—
Deem unplausible—
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- Each Scar I'Ll Keep For Him
- Suspense—is Hostiler Than Death
- As Frost Is Best Conceived
- It Struck Me Every Day
- Doom Is The House Without The Door