At leisure is the Soul
That gets a Staggering Blow --
The Width of Life -- before it spreads
Without a thing to do --
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.Emily Dickinson
The low Grass loaded with the Dew
The Twilight stood, as Strangers do
With Hat in Hand, polite and new
To stay as if, or go.
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Some Rainbow -- coming from the Fair!
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A Sailor's business is the shore!
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The Sun -- just touched the Morning --
The Morning -- Happy thing --
Supposed that He had come to dwell --
And Life would all be Spring!
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The Way to know the Bobolink
From every other Bird
Precisely as the Joy of him --
Obliged to be inferred.
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