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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 67 of 446 · First Series: Nature

Poem 23

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The butterfly's assumption-gown, In chrysoprase apartments hung, This afternoon put on.

How condescending to descend, And be of buttercups the friend In a New England town!

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