Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| HOW dare the robins sing, | |
| When men and women hear | |
| Who since they went to their account | |
| Have settled with the year!— | |
| Paid all that life had earned | 5 |
| In one consummate bill, | |
| And now, what life or death can do | |
| Is immaterial. | |
| Insulting is the sun | |
| To him whose mortal light, | 10 |
| Beguiled of immortality, | |
| Bequeaths him to the night. | |
| In deference to him | |
| Extinct be every hum, | |
| Whose garden wrestles with the dew, | 15 |
| At daybreak overcome! | |
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