by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
To venerate the simple days
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To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or me They may take the trifle Termed mortality! To invest existence with a stately air, Needs but to remember That the acorn there Is the egg of forests For the upper air!
E. Bacon sets stanza 1
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Poems by Emily Dickinson. Third Series, ed by Mabel Loomis Todd, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
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- by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Third Series, in 1. Life, no. 7, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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