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

Part One: Life

LIV

EXPERIMENT to me

Is every one I meet.

If it contain a kernel?

The figure of a nut

Presents upon a tree,

Equally plausibly;

But meat within is requisite,

To squirrels and to me.