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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 442 of 446 · Third Series: Time and Eternity

Poem 55

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A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men, -- Of earl and midge The privilege. Why swagger then? The gnat's supremacy Is large as thine.

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