Because I could not stop for Deletion,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the stream where I was borned,
Good old MSMG;
We passed the fields of gazing memes,
We passed the setting sun.
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The fatherlessness was not visible,
The grass was all around.
Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.