Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Author

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Editor

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

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Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.

1914

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XLIV.

 THE bone that has no marrow; What ultimate for that?  It is not fit for table, For beggar, or for cat. 

 A bone has obligations, A being has the same; A marrowless assembly Is culpabler than shame. 

 But how shall finished creatures A function fresh obtain? —Old Nicodemus' phantom Confronting us again! 