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Emily Dickinson

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What tenements of clover
Are fitting for the bee,
What edifices azure
For butterflies and me—
What residences nimble
Arise and evanesce
Without a rhythmic rumor
Or an assaulting guess.

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1875

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