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

Part Five: The Single Hound

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OF this is Day composed—
A morning and a noon,
A Revelry unspeakable
And then a gay Unknown;
Whose Pomps allure and spurn—        5
And dower and deprive,
And penury for glory
Remedilessly leave.

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