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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LXXIV

THIS quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,
        And Lads and Girls;
Was laughter and ability and sighing,
        And frocks and curls.
This passive place a Summer’s nimble mansion,        5
        Where Bloom and Bees
Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,
        Then ceased like these.

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