<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425469" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John McCain's Lament 1818 - after Emily Dickinson - Because I would not stop for Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">John McCains's Lament<br>Cause Sarah would not stop for B. <br>he put a stop to me; <br>elections held November 4<br>proved immorality. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Results flip flopped, no seats to waste, <br>though I had put away <br>both labour, Cindy's leisure too, -<br>ineligibility! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd passed town halls where voters polled <br>by crossing yea or nay; <br>passed field of hopefuls gazing gain - <br>who soon saw setting sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd paused before Whitehouse that seemed <br>A bushman's paradise, <br>whose roof was all too visible, <br>whose tenant scorned advice. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since then seems centuries; but each <br>feels shorter than the day <br>results showed Barack far ahead, <br>grey Cinders left for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because I could not stop for Death<br>Because I could not stop for Death, <br>He kindly stopped for me; <br>The carriage held but just ourselves <br>And Immortality. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We slowly drove, he knew no haste, <br>And I had put away <br>My labor, and my leisure too, <br>For his civility. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We passed the school where children played <br>At wrestling in a ring; 10 <br>We passed the fields of gazing grain, <br>We passed the setting sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We paused before a house that seemed <br>A swelling of the ground; <br>The roof was scarcely visible, <br>The cornice but a mound. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since then 't is centuries; but each <br>Feels shorter than the day <br>I first surmised the horses' heads <br>Were toward eternity. <br>Emily Dickinson</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(12 November 2008)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425469" data-title="John McCain's Lament 1818 - after Emily Dickinson - Because I would not stop for Death de Jonathan Robin" data-description="John McCains's Lament Cause Sarah would not stop for B. he put a stop to me; elections held November 4 proved immorality. Results flip flopped, no seats to waste, though I had put away both labour, Cindy's leisure too, - ineligibility! We'..."></div> </div> </div>

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