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A long, long sleep, a famous sleep

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

A long, long sleep, a famous sleep
  That makes no show for dawn
By stretch of limb or stir of lid, —
  An independent one.

Was ever idleness like this?
  Within a hut of stone
To bask the centuries away
  Nor once look up for noon?

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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