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

Part Two: Nature

XXXII

THE LEAVES, like women, interchange

Sagacious confidence;

Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of

Portentous inference,

The parties in both cases

Enjoining secrecy,—

Inviolable compact

To notoriety.