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The leaves, like women, interchange

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

The leaves, like women, interchange
  Sagacious confidence;
Somewhat of nods, and somewhat of
  Portentous inference,

The parties in both cases
  Enjoining secrecy, —
Inviolable compact
  To notoriety.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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