Cover art for Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (896) by Emily Dickinson

Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (896)

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Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe (896) Lyrics

Of Silken Speech and Specious Shoe
A Traitor is the Bee
His service to the newest Grace
Present continually

His Suit a chance
His Troth a Term
Protracted as the Breeze
Continual Ban propoundeth He
Continual Divorce.

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