As children bid the guest good-night

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

And then reluctant turn,

My flowers raise their pretty lips,

Then put their nightgowns on.


As children caper when they wake,

Merry that it is morn,

My flowers from a hundred cribs

Will peep, and prance again.

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