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

Part Five: The Single Hound

XLVIII

MARCH is the month of expectation,

The things we do not know,

The Persons of prognostication

Are coming now.

We try to sham becoming firmness,

But pompous joy

Betrays us, as his first betrothal

Betrays a boy.