Because I Could Not Stop

[Chorus:] Because i could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortality [Verse 1:] 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 At wrestling in a ring We passed the fields of gazing grain We passed the setting sun We paused before a house that seemed A swelling in the ground The roof was scarcely visible The cornice but a mound Since then ’tis centuries but each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses’ heads Were toward eternity [Chorus]