Emily Dickinson

A Coffin - is a small Domain

943 A Coffin — is a small Domain, Yet able to contain A Citizen of Paradise In it diminished Plane. A Grave — is a restricted Breadth — Yet ampler than the Sun — And all the Seas He populates And Lands He looks upon To Him who on its small Repose Bestows a single Friend — Circumference without Relief — Or Estimate — or End —