The Robin

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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That speechless from her nest
The robin is the one
An April but begun.
The robin is the one
That overflows the noon
With her cherubic quantity,
And sanctity are best.
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
The robin is the one
Submits that home and certainty
That interrupts the morn