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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XXIII. IN THE GARDEN.
A BIRD came down the walk:He did not know I saw;He bit an angle-worm in halvesAnd ate the fellow, raw.
And then he drank a dewFrom a convenient grass,And then hopped sidewise to the wallTo let a beetle pass.
He glanced with rapid eyesThat hurried all abroad, —They looked like frightened beads, I thought;He stirred his velvet head
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Like one in danger; cautious,I offered him a crumb,And he unrolled his feathersAnd rowed him softer home
Than oars divide the ocean,Too silver for a seam,Or butterflies, off banks of noon,Leap, plashless, as they swim.
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