Because I could not stop for Death

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,

Their lessons scarcely done;

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.