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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 111. The murmuring of bees has ceased

AFTERMATH.


The murmuring of bees has ceased;

But murmuring of some

Posterior, prophetic,

Has simultaneous come, --


The lower metres of the year,

When nature's laugh is done, --

The Revelations of the book

Whose Genesis is June.

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