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

Part Five: The Single Hound

IV

FAME is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate,

Whose table once a Guest, but not

The second time, is set.

Whose crumbs the crows inspect,

And with ironic caw

Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn;

Men eat of it and die.