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The Woodpecker

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

His bill an auger is,
His head, a cap and frill.
He laboreth at every tree,—
A worm his utmost goal.




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    May-Night
    by William Ellery Leonard
    Blue are the twilight heavens above the hill, A yellow half-moon's high within the blue, And rosy May-night clouds are soft and still, And all the world beside is shut from view. The plum-trees, ...