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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 86. Hope is a subtle glutton

HOPE.


Hope is a subtle glutton;

He feeds upon the fair;

And yet, inspected closely,

What abstinence is there!


His is the halcyon table

That never seats but one,

And whatsoever is consumed

The same amounts remain.

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