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The Butterfly in honored Dust

by Emily Dickinson

The Butterfly in honored Dust

Assuredly will lie

But none will pass the Catacomb

So chastened as the Fly --

death
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The Butterfly in honored Dust
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Emily Dickinson
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death

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