Time LXIII. Ample make this bed (829), par Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Time LXIII. Ample make this bed (829)

Part Four: Time and Eternity

LXIII

Ample make this bed.

Make this bed with awe;

In it wait till judgment break

Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight,

Be its pillow round;

Let no sunrise’ yellow noise

Interrupt this ground.

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