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

Part One: Life

LXXI

UNDUE significance a starving man attaches

To food

Far off; he sighs, and therefore hopeless,

And therefore good.

Partaken, it relieves indeed, but proves us

That spices fly

In the receipt. It was the distance

Was savory.