The bee is not afraid of me

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

I know the butterfly;

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially.


The brooks laugh louder when I come,

The breezes madder play.

Wherefore, mine eyes, thy silver mists?

Wherefore, O summer's day?

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