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Emily Dickinson

1154

A full fed Rose on meals of Tint
A Dinner for a Bee
In process of the Noon became -
Each bright Mortality
The Forfeit is of Creature fair
Itself, adored before
Submitting for our unknown sake
To be esteemed no more—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1870

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