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

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Title
Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.
1914
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XXII.
THE BAT.

THE bat is dun with wrinkled wings Like fallow article, And not a song pervades his lips,Or none perceptible.
His small umbrella, quaintly halved, Describing in the air An arc alike inscrutable, — Elate philosopher!
Deputed from what firmament Of what astute abode, Empowered with what malevolence Auspiciously withheld.
To his adroit Creator Ascribe no less the praise; Beneficent, believe me, His eccentricities.
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