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Emily Dickinson

1364

How know it from a Summer’s Day?
Its Fervors are as firm—
And nothing in the Countenance
But scintillates the same—
Yet Birds examine it and flee—
And Vans without a name
Inspect the Admonition
And sunder as they came—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1876

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