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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 377 of 446 · Third Series: Nature

A Snake

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Sweet is the swamp with its secrets,
Until we meet a snake;
'T is then we sigh for houses,
And our departure take
At that enthralling gallop
That only childhood knows.
A snake is summer's treason,
And guile is where it goes.

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