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The pedigree of Honey

Read 'The pedigree of Honey' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

The pedigree of Honey by Emily Dickinson

 The pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,
Nor lineage of Ecstasy
Delay the Butterfly
On spangle journeys to the peak
Of some perceiveless thing --
The right of way to Tripoli
A more essential thing.

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The Pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee --
A Clover, any time, to him,
Is Aristocracy --

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