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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 368 of 446 · Third Series: Nature

Poem 10

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To my quick ear the leaves conferred;
The bushes they were bells;
I could not find a privacy
From Nature's sentinels.

In cave if I presumed to hide,
The walls began to tell;
Creation seemed a mighty crack
To make me visible.

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