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

Part Two: Nature

LVIII

THE BEE is not afraid of me,

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially.

The brooks laugh louder when I come,

The breezes madder play.

Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?

Wherefore, O summer’s day?