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

Part Three: Love

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MY friend must be a bird,
      Because it flies!
Mortal my friend must be,
      Because it dies!
Barbs has it, like a bee.        5
Ah, curious friend,
      Thou puzzlest me!

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