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Emily Dickinson

1170

Nature affects to be sedate
Upon occasion, grand
But let our observation shut
Her practices extend

To Necromancy and the Trades
Remote to understand
Behold our spacious Citizen
Unto a Juggler turned—

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

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