Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Two: Nature
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| THE DAY came slow, till five o’clock, | |
| Then sprang before the hills | |
| Like hindered rubies, or the light | |
| A sudden musket spills. | |
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| The purple could not keep the east, | 5 |
| The sunrise shook from fold, | |
| Like breadths of topaz, packed a night, | |
| The lady just unrolled. | |
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| The happy winds their timbrels took; | |
| The birds, in docile rows, | 10 |
| Arranged themselves around their prince | |
| (The wind is prince of those). | |
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| The orchard sparkled like a Jew,— | |
| How mighty ’t was, to stay | |
| A guest in this stupendous place, | 15 |
| The parlor of the day! | |
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