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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 27. A spider sewed at night

THE SPIDER.


A spider sewed at night

Without a light

Upon an arc of white.

If ruff it was of dame

Or shroud of gnome,

Himself, himself inform.

Of immortality

His strategy

Was physiognomy.

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