13. “If what we could were what we would.” Part Five: The Single Hound. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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

Part Five: The Single Hound

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IF what we could were what we would—
Criterion be small;
It is the Ultimate of talk
The impotence to tell.