Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
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Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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II.
I BRING an unaccustomed wineTo lips long parching, next to mine,And summon them to drink.
Crackling with fever, they essay;I turn my brimming eyes away,And come next hour to look.
The hands still hug the tardy glass;The lips I would have cooled, alas!Are so superfluous cold,
I would as soon attempt to warmThe bosoms where the frost has lainAges beneath the mould.
Some other thirsty there may beTo whom this would have pointed meHad it remained to speak.
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And so I always bear the cupIf, haply, mine may be the dropSome pilgrim thirst to slake, —
If, haply, any say to me,"Unto the little, unto me,"When I at last awake.
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