Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound IV |
| FAME is a fickle food | |
| Upon a shifting plate, | |
| Whose table once a Guest, but not | |
| The second time, is set. | |
| Whose crumbs the crows inspect, | 5 |
| And with ironic caw | |
| Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn; | |
| Men eat of it and die. |
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