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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
.
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.
.
It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.
.
Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay –
.
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.
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