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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Two: Nature

XXVII

A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,        5
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.

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