Death is a dialogue between...
by Emily Dickinson
Death is a dialogue between
The spirit and the dust.
Dissolve,
says Death. The Spirit, Sir,
I have another trust.
Death doubts it, argues from the ground.
The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An overcoat of clay.
Source:
PoemsCopyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston