| Because l      could not stop for Death |   | 
                    
                        |      He kindly      stopped for me; |   | 
                    
                        |      The      carriage held but Just ourselves |   | 
                    
                        | And      Immortality |   | 
                    
                        |      We slowly      drove, he knew no haste, | 5 | 
                    
                        | And I had      put away |   | 
                    
                        | My labor,      and my leisure too |   | 
                    
                        | For his     civility, |   | 
                    
                        | We passed      the school, when children strove |   | 
                    
                        | At      recess,      in the ring; | 10 | 
                    
                        | We passed      the fields of gazing grain, |   | 
                    
                        | We passed      the setting sun. |   | 
                    
                        | Or rather      he passed us |   | 
                    
                        |      The dews      drew quivering and chill, |   | 
                    
                        | For only      gossamer my gown | 15 | 
                    
                        |      My tippet only tulle. |   | 
                    
                        | We paused      before a house that seemed |   | 
                    
                        | A swelling      of the ground! |   | 
                    
                        | The roof      was s scarcely visible, |   | 
                    
                        | The      cornice in the ground. | 20 | 
                    
                        |      Since then      'tis centuries and yet |   | 
                    
                        | Feels      shorter. The day |   | 
                    
                        | I first      surmised the horses' death |   | 
                    
                        | were      toward eternity. |   |