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Undue Significance a starving man attaches

by Emily Dickinson

Undue Significance a starving man attaches

To Food —

Far off — He sighs — and therefore — Hopeless —

And therefore — Good —

Partaken — it relieves — indeed —

But proves us

That Spices fly

In the Receipt — It was the Distance —

Was Savory —

This poem is in the public domain.

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