Its little Ether Hood

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Its little Ether Hood by Emily Dickinson

 Its little Ether Hood
Doth sit upon its Head --
The millinery supple
Of the sagacious God --

Till when it slip away
A nothing at a time --
And Dandelion's Drama
Expires in a stem.

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