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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 368 of 446 · Third Series: Nature

Poem 10

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To my quick ear the leaves conferred; The bushes they were bells; I could not find a privacy From Nature's sentinels.

In cave if I presumed to hide, The walls began to tell; Creation seemed a mighty crack To make me visible.

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