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

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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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V.
TO MARCH.

DEAR March, come in!How glad I am! I looked for you before. Put down your hat — You must have walked — How out of breath you are! Dear March, how are you? And the rest? Did you leave Nature well? Oh, March, come right upstairs with me, I have so much to tell!
I got your letter, and the birds'; The maples never knew That you were coming, — I declare, How red their faces grew! But, March, forgive me — And all those hills

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You left for me to hue; There was no purple suitable, You took it all with you.
Who knocks? That April! Lock the door! I will not be pursued! He stayed away a year, to call When I am occupied. But trifles look so trivial As soon as you have come, That blame is just as dear as praise And praise as mere as blame.
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