Another poem by another poet about dignity before and after death. This poem, for me, emphasizes the ambiguity of who deserves human dignity and should it be qualitatively more in one human being than another? ..Maurice.
One Dignity Delays for All
by Emily Dickinson
One dignity delays for all --
One mitred Afternoon --
None can avoid this purple --
None evade this Crown!
Coach, it insures, and footmen --
Chamber, and state, and throng --
Bells, also, in the village
As we ride grand along!
What dignified Attendants!
What service when we pause!
How loyally at parting
Their hundred hats they raise!
Her pomp surpassing ermine
When simple You, and I,
Present our meek escutheon
And claim the rank to die!
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