"Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. [...] Since then – ’tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity –"
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Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Death"
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