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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 17 of 446 · First Series: Life

Dawn

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When night is almost done, And sunrise grows so near That we can touch the spaces, It 's time to smooth the hair

And get the dimples ready, And wonder we could care For that old faded midnight That frightened but an hour.

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