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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XXII

HIS mind, of man a secret makes,

I meet him with a start,

He carries a circumference

In which I have no part,

Or even if I deem I do—

He otherwise may know.

Impregnable to inquest,

However neighborly.