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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 143 of 446 · Second Series: Life

Poem 28

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Experiment to me
Is every one I meet.
If it contain a kernel?
The figure of a nut

Presents upon a tree,
Equally plausibly;
But meat within is requisite,
To squirrels and to me.

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