Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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A Toad, can die of Light -
Death is the Common Right
Of Toads and Men -
Of Earl and Midge
The privilege -
Why swagger, then?
The Gnat's supremacy is large as Thine -

Life - is a different Thing -
So measure Wine -
Naked of Flask - Naked of Cask -
Bare Rhine -
Which Ruby's mine?

1. Love’s Baptism
2. Rouge Gagne
3. The Heart Asks Pleasure First
4. To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave
5. Dawn

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