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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 123. Our lives are Swiss

ALPINE GLOW.


Our lives are Swiss, --

So still, so cool,

Till, some odd afternoon,

The Alps neglect their curtains,

And we look farther on.


Italy stands the other side,

While, like a guard between,

The solemn Alps,

The siren Alps,

Forever intervene!

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