My friend attacks my friend!

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Dickinson regularly employed long dashes to separate poems in her fascicles. My friend attacks my friend! appears on the lower half of the page. It exists in no other drafts and was not published until 1945.

 

My friend attacks my friend!
Oh Battle picturesque!
Then I turn Soldier too,
And he turns Satirist!
How martial is this place!
Had I a mighty gun
I think I'd shoot the human race
And then to glory run!

My friend attacks my friend!
Poem in fascicle 5, ca. 1859
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