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I heard a fly buzz when I died--
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| The stillness in the room |
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| Was like the stillness in the air |
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| Between the heaves of storm. |
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| The eyes around had wrung them dry |
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| And breaths were gathering firm |
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| For that last onset when the King |
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| Be witnessed in the room. |
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| I willed my keepsakes, signed away |
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| What portion of me be |
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| Assignable -- and then it was |
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| There interposed a fly. |
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| With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, |
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| Between the light and me. |
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| And then the windows failed, and then |
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| I could not see to see. |
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