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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LIII

THE LONG sigh of the Frog

Upon a Summer’s day,

Enacts intoxication

Upon the revery.

But his receding swell

Substantiates a peace,

That makes the ear inordinate

For corporal release.