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Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]

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Title
Poems (Series 3) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
Publication
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.
1914
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III.

A LIGHT exists in spring Not present on the year At any other period. When March is scarcely here
A color stands abroad On solitary hills That science cannot overtake, But human nature feels.
It waits upon the lawn; It shows the furthest tree Upon the furthest slope we know; It almost speaks to me.
Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away, Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:

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A quality of loss Affecting our content, As trade had suddenly encroached Upon a sacrament.
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