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Undue significance a starving man attaches

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

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.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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