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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXI

THE MISSING All prevented me

From missing minor things.

If nothing larger than a World’s

Departure from a hinge,

Or Sun’s extinction be observed,

’T was not so large that I

Could lift my forehead from my work

For curiosity.