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

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Author

Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886

Editor

Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

Publication

Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Co.

1914

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 XII.   HOW dare the robins sing, When men and women hear Who since they went to their account Have settled with the year! —  Paid all that life had earned In one consummate bill, And now, what life or death can do  Is immaterial. Insulting is the sun To him whose mortal light, Beguiled of immortality, Bequeaths him to the night. In deference to him Extinct be every hum, Whose garden wrestles with the dew, At daybreak overcome!     