The duties of the Wind are few,
To cast the ships, at Sea,
Establish March, the Floods escort,
And usher Liberty.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Knows the Adder Tongue his comingAnd presents her Spot --
Stands the Sun so close and mighty
That our Minds are hot.
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Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And Consciousness -- is Noon.
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Therein thyself shalt find
The "Undiscovered Continent" --
No Settler had the Mind.
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There's Sarah, and Eliza, and Emeline so fair,
And Harriet, and Susan, and she with curling hair!
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The Way to know the Bobolink
From every other Bird
Precisely as the Joy of him --
Obliged to be inferred.
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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