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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LV

I SEND two Sunsets—

Day and I in competition ran,

I finished two, and several stars,

While He was making one.

His own is ampler—

But, as I was saying to a friend,

Mine is the more convenient

To carry in the hand.

(Sent with brilliant flowers.)