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Emily Dickinson

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A wild Blue sky abreast of Winds
That threatened it—did run
And crouched behind his Yellow Door
Was the defiant sun—
Some conflict with those upper friends
So genial in the main
That we deplore peculiarly
Their arrogant campaign—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1877

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