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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 74. The butterfly's assumption-gown

The butterfly's assumption-gown,

In chrysoprase apartments hung,

This afternoon put on.


How condescending to descend,

And be of buttercups the friend

In a New England town!

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