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A spider sewed at night

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

A spider sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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