Emily Dickinson

Dec. 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886

 

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by Emily Dickinson

As if some little Arctic flower,
Upon the polar hem,
Went wandering down the latitudes,
Until it puzzled came
To continents of summer,
To firmaments of sun,
To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
And birds of foreign tongue!
I say, as if this little flower
To Eden wandered in --
What then? Why, nothing, only
Your inference therefrom!

Source:

Poems
Copyright 1890
Little, Brown, And Company, Boston