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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity XCV |
| DEATH is like the insect | |
| Menacing the tree, | |
| Competent to kill it, | |
| But decoyed may be. | |
| Bait it with the balsam, | 5 |
| Seek it with the knife, | |
| Baffle, if it cost you | |
| Everything in life. | |
| Then, if it have burrowed | |
| Out of reach of skill, | 10 |
| Ring the tree and leave it,— | |
| ’T is the vermin’s will. |
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