Song

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

SUMMER for thee grant I may be

      When summer days are flown!

Thy music still when whippoorwill

      And oriole are done!


For thee to bloom, I 'll skip the tomb

      And sow my blossoms o'er!

Pray gather me, Anemone,

      Thy flower forevermore!

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