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

Part Three: Love

LI

MY friend must be a bird,

Because it flies!

Mortal my friend must be,

Because it dies!

Barbs has it, like a bee.

Ah, curious friend,

Thou puzzlest me!