The Humming-Bird

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

AROUTE of evanescence

      With a revolving wheel;

A resonance of emerald,

A rush of cochineal;

And every blossom on the bush

Adjusts its tumbled head,—

The mail from Tunis, probably,

An easy morning's ride.

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