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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 134. We thirst at first, - 't is Nature's act

THIRST.


We thirst at first, -- 't is Nature's act;

And later, when we die,

A little water supplicate

Of fingers going by.


It intimates the finer want,

Whose adequate supply

Is that great water in the west

Termed immortality.