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

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXLII

GIVE little anguish

Lives will fret.

Give avalanches—

And they’ll slant,

Straighten, look cautious for their breath,

But make no syllable—

Like Death,

Who only shows his

Marble disc—

Sublimer sort than speech.