Grade 4 · Poem
A Bird Came Down the Walk
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
From Poems, Second Series by Emily Dickinson (1891) · Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, Emily Dickinson (1891)
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