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Fame is a bee. (1788)

By Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.
It has a song - 
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing.

Copyright Credit: Emily Dickinson, "Fame is a bee" from (02138: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, )
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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