Week 6, Trinity


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June 6th 2009
Published: June 6th 2009
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The last week has still been a whirlwind, with lectures, high Anglican services, cathedrals, Shakespeare, and theatre. Yet I have to stop a moment here, with Emily Dickinson for Grandpa:

Because I 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,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

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