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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 320 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Poem 39

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Life, and Death, and Giants
Such as these, are still.
Minor apparatus, hopper of the mill,
Beetle at the candle,
Or a fife's small fame,
Maintain by accident
That they proclaim.

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