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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

CXXI

I WORKED for chaff, and earning wheat

Was haughty and betrayed.

What right had fields to arbitrate

In matters ratified?

I tasted wheat,—and hated chaff,

And thanked the ample friend;

Wisdom is more becoming viewed

At distance than at hand.