All but Death can be (89)

All but Death can be
Adjusted ;
Dynasties repaired,
Systems settled in their
Sockets,
Centuries removed, —

Wastes of lives resown
With colors
By superior springs,
Death — unto itself exception —
Is exempt from change.

From The Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, and Company, 1929) by Emily Dickinson. Copyright © 1929 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. This poem is in the public domain.