Emily Dickinson

A Weight with Needles on the pounds

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A Weight with Needles on the pounds

264 A Weight with Needles on the pounds — To push, and pierce, besides — That if the Flesh resist the Heft — The puncture — coolly tries — That not a pore be overlooked Of all this Compound Frame — As manifold for Anguish — As Species — be — for name —