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A long long sleep a famous sleep

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?

Poem by Emily Dickinson
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