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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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