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(A Bird came down the Walk1<\/sup>)<\/p>\n

Emily Dickinson <\/b><\/p>\n

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\"A<\/a>A bird came down the walk:<\/dt>\n
He did not know I saw;<\/dt>\n
He bit an angle-worm in halves<\/dt>\n
And ate the fellow, raw.<\/dt>\n
\u22c5<\/span><\/dt>\n
And then he drank a dew<\/dt>\n
From a convenient grass,<\/dt>\n
And then hopped sidewise to the wall<\/dt>\n
To let a beetle pass.<\/dt>\n
\u22c5<\/span><\/dt>\n
He glanced with rapid eyes<\/dt>\n
That hurried all abroad,\u2014<\/dt>\n
They looked like frightened beads, I thought;<\/dt>\n
He stirred his velvet head<\/dt>\n
\u22c5<\/span><\/dt>\n
Like one in danger; cautious,<\/dt>\n
I offered him a crumb,<\/dt>\n
And he unrolled his feathers<\/dt>\n
And rowed him softer home<\/dt>\n
\u22c5<\/span><\/dt>\n
Than oars divide the ocean,<\/dt>\n
Too silver for a seam,<\/dt>\n
Or butterflies, off banks of noon,<\/dt>\n
Leap, plashless,1<\/sup> as they swim.<\/dt>\n
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