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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 219 of 446 · Second Series: Nature

Poem 31

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Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets, -- Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman, Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly, Like a lover's words.

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