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1830–1886

XVII.

Emily Dickinson

Who robbed the woods, The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses

His fantasy to please. He scanned their trinkets, curious, He grasped, he bore away. What will the solemn hemlock,

What will the fir-tree say?

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