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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

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HIS mind, of man a secret makes,
I meet him with a start,
He carries a circumference
In which I have no part,
Or even if I deem I do—        5
He otherwise may know.
Impregnable to inquest,
However neighborly.

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