Cover art for 1096 by Emily Dickinson
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1096 Lyrics

A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides
You may have met him? Did you not
His notice instant is

The Grass divides as with a Comb
A spotted Shaft is seen,
And then it closes at your Feet
And opens further on –

He likes a Boggy Acre
A Floor too cool for Corn
But when a Boy and Barefoot
I more than once at Noon

Have passed I thought a Whip Lash
Unbraiding in the Sun
When stooping to secure it
It wrinkled And was gone –

Several of Nature’s People
I know and they know me
I feel for them a transport
Of Cordiality

But never met this Fellow
Attended or alone
Without a tighter Breathing
And Zero at the Bone.

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January 1, 1865
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