None Can Experience Sting, by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

None Can Experience Sting

771

None can experience sting

Who Bounty—have not known—

The fact of Famine—could not be

Except for Fact of Corn—

Want—is a meagre Art

Acquired by Reverse—

The Poverty that was not Wealth—

Cannot be Indigence.

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