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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 48 of 446 · First Series: Nature

Poem 4

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Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower? But I could never sell. If you would like to borrow Until the daffodil

Unties her yellow bonnet Beneath the village door, Until the bees, from clover rows Their hock and sherry draw,

Why, I will lend until just then, But not an hour more!

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