A Toad, can die of Light –
Death is the Common Right
Of Toads and Men –
Of Earl and Midge
The privilege –
Why swagger, then?
The Gnat’s supremacy is large as Thine –

Life — is a different Thing –
So measure Wine —
Naked of Flask — Naked of Cask –
Bare Rhine —
Which Ruby’s mine?
-Emily Dickinson