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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 29. The one that could repeat the summer day

The one that could repeat the summer day

Were greater than itself, though he

Minutest of mankind might be.

And who could reproduce the sun,

At period of going down --

The lingering and the stain, I mean --

When Orient has been outgrown,

And Occident becomes unknown,

His name remain.

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