A toad can die of light!

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

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ATOAD can die of light!

      Death is the common right

      Of toads and men,—

Of earl and midge

The privilege.

      Why swagger then?

The gnat's supremacy

Is large as thine.

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