By Emily Dickinson
Date: 7 March 1999

Poem 747

It dropped so low - in my Regard -
I heard it it hit the Ground -
And go to pieces on the Stones
At bottom of my Mind -

Yet blamed the Fate that flung it - less
Than I denounced Myself,
For entertaining Plated Wares
Upon my Silver Shelf

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