53. “Pink, small, and punctual.” Part Two: Nature. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems

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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Two: Nature

LIII

PINK, small, and punctual.
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,

Dear to the moss,	5
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.

Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,	10
Nature forswears
Antiquity. (With the first Arbutus.)