Emily Dickinson

It Would Have Starved a Gnat

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It would have starved a Gnat—
To live so small as I—
And yet I was a living Child—
With Food’s necessity
 
Upon me—like a Claw—
I could no more remove
Than I could coax a Leech away—
Or make a Dragon—move—
 
Not like the Gnat—had I—
The privilege to fly
And seek a Dinner for myself—
How mightier He—than I—
 
Nor like Himself—the Art
Upon the Window Pane
To gad my little Being out—
And not begin—again—
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