Emily Dickinson: A Light Exists in Spring

A Light exists in Spring

Not present on the Year

At any other period –

When March is scarcely here

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A Color stands abroad

On Solitary Fields

That Science cannot overtake

But Human Nature feels.

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It waits upon the Lawn,

It shows the furthest Tree

Upon the furthest Slope you know

It almost speaks to you.

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Then as Horizons step

Or Noons report away

Without the Formula of sound

It passes and we stay –

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A quality of loss

Affecting our Content

As Trade had suddenly encroached

Upon a Sacrament.

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