Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Five: The Single Hound
LXV
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| SUMMER begins to have the look, | |
| Peruser of enchanting Book | |
| Reluctantly, but sure, perceives— | |
| A gain upon the backward leaves. | |
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| Autumn begins to be inferred | 5 |
| By millinery of the cloud, | |
| Or deeper color in the shawl | |
| That wraps the everlasting hill. | |
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| The eye begins its avarice, | |
| A meditation chastens speech, | 10 |
| Some Dyer of a distant tree | |
| Resumes his gaudy industry. | |
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| Conclusion is the course of all, | |
| Almost to be perennial, | |
| And then elude stability | 15 |
| Recalls to immortality. | |
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