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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Two: Nature

LXXIV

THE BUTTERFLY’S assumption-gown,

In chrysoprase apartments hung,

This afternoon put on.

How condescending to descend,

And be of buttercups the friend

In a New England town!