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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
1579

It would not know if it were spurned,
This gallant little flower—
How therefore safe to be a flower
If one would tamper there.

To enter, it would not aspire—
But may it not despair
That it is not a Cavalier,
To dare and perish there?
Book: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
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