Emily Dickinson

A Toad can die of Light -

A Toad, can die of Light— Death is the Common Right Of Toads and Men— Of Earl and Midge The privilege— Why swagger, then? The Gnat’s supremacy is large as Thine— Life—is a different Thing— So measure Wine— Naked of Flask—Naked of Cask— Bare Rhine— Which Ruby’s mine? Composition Date: ca. 1862. Form: aabccbcb ? 7-8. The existing manuscript version of poem 583, The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. W. Franklin in two volumes (Cambridge, Mass. , and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981: I, 301 ; fascicle 14 ; PS 1541 A1 1981 ROBA), splits the two lines after "is".