Not with a club the heart is broken

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

      Nor with a stone;

A whip, so small you could not see it,

      I've known


To lash the magic creature

      Till it fell,

Yet that whip's name too noble

      Then to tell.


Magnanimous of bird

      By boy descried,

To sing unto the stone

      Of which it died.

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