The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - And now We roam in Sovreign Woods -And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him The Mountains straight reply - And do I smile, such cordial light Opon the Valley glow -It is as a Vesuvian face Had let it's pleasure through - And when at Night - Our good Day done -I guard My Master's Head - 'Tis better than the Eider - Duck'sEider Duck'slowDeep Pillow - to have shared - To foe of His - I'm deadly foe - Noneharm stir the second time - On whom I lay a Yellow Eye - Or an emphatic Thumb -Though I than He - may longer live He longer must - than I - For I have but theart power to kill, Without - the power to die -