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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Two: Love 51. My friend must be a bird

WHO?


My friend must be a bird,

Because it flies!

Mortal my friend must be,

Because it dies!

Barbs has it, like a bee.

Ah, curious friend,

Thou puzzlest me!

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