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"I'll Tell You How The Sun Rose"
Emily Dickinson
I'll tell you how the sun rose, --
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hill untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"
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But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars, --
And led the flock away.
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