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

Part One: Life

CXXXVII

ONE day is there of the series

Termed Thanksgiving day,

Celebrated part at table,

Part in memory.

Neither patriarch nor pussy,

I dissect the play;

Seems it, to my hooded thinking,

Reflex holiday.

Had there been no sharp subtraction

From the early sum,

Not an acre or a caption

Where was once a room,

Not a mention, whose small pebble

Wrinkled any bay,—

Unto such, were such assembly,

’T were Thanksgiving day.