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The Bone that has no Marrow

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The Bone that has no Marrow, (1896)
by Emily Dickinson
1274
13701The Bone that has no Marrow, — 1274Emily Dickinson

The Bone that has no Marrow,
What Ultimate for that?
It is not fit for Table
For Beggar or for Cat.

A Bone has obligations —
A Being has the same —
A Marrowless Assembly
Is culpabler than shame.

But how shall finished Creatures
A function fresh obtain?
Old Nicodemus' Phantom
Confronting us again!

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