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

Part Two: Nature

XCV

THE SPIDER as an artist

Has never been employed

Though his surpassing merit

Is freely certified

By every broom and Bridget

Throughout a Christian land.

Neglected son of genius,

I take thee by the hand.