One Dignity Delays for All lyrics

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!

• Artist:Emily Dickinson