Poem A Day

Oh Sumptuous moment

by Emily Dickinson

Oh Sumptuous moment

Slower go

That I may gloat on thee --

'Twill never be the same to starve

Now I abundance see --

Which was to famish, then or now --

The difference of Day

Ask him unto the Gallows led --

With morning in the sky --

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