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

Part Five: The Single Hound

V

THE RIGHT to perish might be thought

An undisputed right,

Attempt it, and the Universe upon the opposite

Will concentrate its officers—

You cannot even die,

But Nature and Mankind must pause

To pay you scrutiny.