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AS THE STARVED MAELSTROM LAPS THE NAVIES by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: AND A TORRID EYE

As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies
As the Vulture teased
Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys
As the Tiger eased


By but a Crumb of Blood, fasts Scarlet
Till he meet a Man
Dainty adorned with Veins and Tissues
And partakes - his Tongue


Cooled by the Morsel for a moment
Grows a fiercer thing
Till he esteem his Dates and Cocoa
A Nutrition mean


I, of a finer Famine
Deem my Supper dry
For but a Berry of Domingo
And a Torrid Eye -




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