A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

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An illustration for the story A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by the author Emily Dickinson
Franz Marc, Deer leaping among flowers, 1912
An illustration for the story A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by the author Emily Dickinson
Franz Marc, Deer leaping among flowers, 1912
An illustration for the story A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest by the author Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps highest,
I've heard the hunter tell;
'Tis but the ecstasy of death,
And then the brake is still.

The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!

Mirth is mail of anguish,
In which its cautious arm
Lest anybody spy the blood
And, "you're hurt" exclaim

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