418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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Words Like Death and Stop and Fields and Ground and Roof and Day, Plain Words, Short Peasant Words
The last lines of some of these stanzas, immortality, civility, eternity. Words with concepts that reach beyond what a farmer might see in a field as he squints against the sun. These are things you contemplate when you are at rest. It's why we are the closest to god. Sorry, dolphins, you're in second place, you stupid losers. I'm just kitding.
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