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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 234 of 446 · Second Series: Nature

Poem 46

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It can't be summer, -- that got through; It 's early yet for spring; There 's that long town of white to cross Before the blackbirds sing.

It can't be dying, -- it's too rouge, -- The dead shall go in white. So sunset shuts my question down With clasps of chrysolite.

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