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

Part Two: Nature

XXXI

NATURE rarer uses yellow

Than another hue;

Saves she all of that for sunsets,—

Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,

Yellow she affords

Only scantly and selectly,

Like a lover’s words.