Further Poems of Emily Dickinson/All but Death can be

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ALL but Death can be
Adjusted;
Dynasties repaired,
Systems settled in their
Sockets,
Centuries removed,—

Wastes of lives resown
With colors
By superior springs,
Death—unto itself exception—
Is exempt from change.

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