Nature
Who giants know, with
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Nature
Who giants know, with
Lesser men
Are incomplete and shy,
For Greatness—that is ill at ease
In minor company.
A smaller could not be perturbed,
The summer gnat displays
Unconscious that his single sail
Does not comprise the sky.
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