Emily Dickinson Lexicon — bystander

Lexicon: bystander – by-thyme

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bystander (-s), n. [ME by- + OE standan.] (webplay: near).

Witness; onlooker; observer; nonparticipant; one who is near.

by-thyme, n. [ME by- + L. < Gr θύεω, to burn sacrifice.]

Herb garden; place of aromatic plants; time when spicy herbs such as thyme are growing; [word play on “by-time” or “bi-time”] mortality; duality; reality; time in the past; (fig.) book of poetry; fascicle of metrical verse.