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I'll send the feather from my Hat!

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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I'll send the feather from my Hat!
Who knows-but at the sight of that
My Sovereign will relent?
As trinket-worn by faded Child-
Confronting eyes long-comforted-
Blisters the Adamant!




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