If I shouldn't be alive

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

XXXVII.


If I should n't be alive

When the robins come,

Give the one in red cravat

A memorial crumb.


If I could n't thank you,

Being just asleep,

You will know I'm trying

With my granite lip!

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