Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Like Her The Saints Retire

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Like her the Saints retire,
In their Chapeaux of fire,
Martial as she!

Like her the Evenings steal
Purple and Cochineal
After the Day!

"Departed"—both&mdash ;they say!
i.e. gathered away,
Not found,

Argues the Aster still—
Reasons the Daffodil
Profound!
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