The Funeral

THAT short, potential stir
That each can make, but once;
That bustle so illustrious
’T is almost consequence,
Is the éclat of death.

Oh, thou unknown renown
That not a beggar would accept,
Had he the power to spurn!

First print Time and Eternity XIII, 13
Johnson 1307 | Franklin 1363

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■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 122;
Object-of-thought stanza thematic arrangement.

■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.