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Who robbed the woods

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

Who robbed the woods,
The trusting woods?
The unsuspecting trees
Brought out their burrs and mosses
His fantasy to please.
He scanned their trinkets, curious,
He grasped, he bore away.
What will the solemn hemlock,
What will the fir-tree say?

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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