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

Part Five: The Single Hound

LXXIV

THIS quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies,

And Lads and Girls;

Was laughter and ability and sighing,

And frocks and curls.

This passive place a Summer’s nimble mansion,

Where Bloom and Bees

Fulfilled their Oriental Circuit,

Then ceased like these.