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

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXXXI

TO see her is a picture,

To hear her is a tune,

To know her an intemperance

As innocent as June;

By which to be undone

Is dearer than Redemption—

Which never to receive,

Makes mockery of melody

It might have been to live.