Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Undue Significance A Starving Man Attaches

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Undue Significance a starving man attaches
To Food—
Far off—He sighs—and therefore—Hopeless—
And therefore—Good—

Partaken&mdash ;it relieves—indeed—
But proves us
That Spices fly
In the Receipt—It was the Distance—
Was Savory—
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