The Waking Year

Emily Dickinson

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1830 to 1886

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A lady red upon the hill
Sweep vale, and hill, and tree!
The neighbors do not yet suspect!
Were nothing very odd!
Who may expected be?
Prithee, my pretty housewives!
The woods exchange a smile —
As if the resurrection
In placid lily sleeps!
Orchard, and buttercup, and bird —
In such a little while!
And yet how still the landscape stands,
Her annual secret keeps;
A lady white within the field
The tidy breezes with their brooms
How nonchalant the wood,

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