The Bone that has no Marrow,
What Ultimate for that?
It is not fit for Table
For Beggar or for Cat.

A Bone has obligations --
A Being has the same --
A Marrowless Assembly
Is culpabler than shame.

But how shall finished Creatures
A function fresh obtain?
Old Nicodemus' Phantom
Confronting us again!

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1274. The Bone that has no Marrow,
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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