28. “Of Death the sharpest function.” 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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OF Death the sharpest function,
That, just as we discern,
The Excellence defies us;
Securest gathered then
The fruit perverse to plucking,	5
But leaning to the sight
With the ecstatic limit
Of unobtained Delight.