We play at paste

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

      Till qualified for pearl,

Then drop the paste,

And deem ourself a fool.

The shapes, though, were similar,

And our new hands

Learned gem-tactics

Practising sands.

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