Emily D. muses about death

"It is to us the Nile" "The time to live is frugal, and good as is a better earth, it will not quite be this." "[Death] invalidates the balm of that religion that doubts as fervantly as it believes." "Heaven hunts around for those that find itself below, and then it snatches." "A finite life is that peculiar garment that were it optional with us we might decline to wear." "Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it." "That bareheaded life under the grass worries one like a wasp." "Dying is a wild night and a new road." "I would go, to know!" She went May 15, 1886.