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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 30. Except to heaven, she is nought

Except to heaven, she is nought;

Except for angels, lone;

Except to some wide-wandering bee,

A flower superfluous blown;


Except for winds, provincial;

Except by butterflies,

Unnoticed as a single dew

That on the acre lies.


The smallest housewife in the grass,

Yet take her from the lawn,

And somebody has lost the face

That made existence home!