The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last - It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoesAnd dim approach But brave at last with Bugles And a bisected Coach It bears away in triumph To Troth unknownAnd Kinsmen as divulgeless As throngs of Down -