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

Part Five: The Single Hound

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THE WINDS drew off

Like hungry dogs

Defeated of a bone.

Through fissures in

Volcanic cloud

The yellow lightning shown.

The trees held up

Their mangled limbs

Like animals in pain,

When Nature falls

Upon herself,

Beware an Austrian!