He cared as much as on the Air
A Bird -- had stamped her foot --
And cried "Give Me" --
My Reason -- Life --
I had not had -- but for Yourself --
'Twere better Charity
To leave me in the Atom's Tomb --
Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb --
Than this smart Misery.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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If the foolish, call them "flowers" --Need the wiser, tell?
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An Altitude of Death, that could
No bitterer debar
Than Life -- had done -- before it --
Yet -- there is a Science more --
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Displayed before the simplest Door
That all may witness it and more,
The pomp of summer Days.
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To die of thirst -- suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!
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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
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Playmates, and holidays, and nuts --
And visions vast and small --
Strange that the feet so precious charged
Should reach so small a goal!
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