A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right
Of toads and men,--
Of earl and midge
The privilege.
Why swagger then?
The gnat's supremacy
Is large as thine.
More verses by Emily Dickinson
- A Mien To Move A Queen
- Before I Got My Eye Put Out
- There's A Certain Slant Of Light (258)
- An Hour Is A Sea
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