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Emily Dickinson

86

South Winds jostle them—
Bumblebees come—
Hover—hesitate—
Drink, and are gone—

Butterflies pause
On their passage Cashmere—
I—softly plucking,
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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1859

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