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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 215 of 446 · Second Series: Nature

The Spider

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A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.

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