437 A Million Miracles Now - "A Bird, came down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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I Offered Him a Crumb, Like One in Danger and Cautious
We want the bird with the frightened beads for eyes to be the one who's in danger and cautious. But why should that be? So you see what i'm saying here, like one in danger. I offered him a crumb. The actual punctuation is that there's a period after head, which is so counter intuitive that many editors just leave that out. That must be, must be a mistake. They think.
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