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The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly -
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Confirmed with The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. R.W. Franklin, Volume 3, Cambridge, MA and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998, Poem 1305 (Version B).
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In verehrtem Staub der Schmetterling Sicherlich wird ruhen, Aber keiner geht ein durch das Grabgewölbe So gezüchtigt wie die Fliege -
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