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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LV


I SEND two Sunsets—
Day and I in competition ran,
I finished two, and several stars,
While He was making one.
  
His own is ampler—        5
But, as I was saying to a friend,
Mine is the more convenient
To carry in the hand.

(Sent with brilliant flowers.)

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