Poems (Dickinson)/I've seen a dying eye

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Poems (1890)
by Emily Dickinson
I've seen a dying eye
5782Poems — I've seen a dying eye1890Emily Dickinson

XV.

I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then cloudier become;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without disclosing what it be,
'T were blessed to have seen.