I breathed enough to learn the trick

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

XLI.


IBREATHED enough to learn the trick,

      And now, removed from air,

I simulate the breath so well,

      That one, to be quite sure


The lungs are stirless, must descend

      Among the cunning cells,

And touch the pantomime himself.

      How cool the bellows feels!

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