XXVIII.

Name: Poems, Second Series - XXVIII.
Author: Emily Dickinson

EXPERIMENT to me

Is every one I meet

If it contain a kernel?

The figure of a nut

Presents upon a tree,

Equally plausibly;

But meat within is requisite,

To squirrels and to me.

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