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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXVIII

OF Death the sharpest function,

That, just as we discern,

The Excellence defies us;

Securest gathered then

The fruit perverse to plucking,

But leaning to the sight

With the ecstatic limit

Of unobtained Delight.