Of this is Day composed

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

A morning and a noon,

A Revelry unspeakable

And then a gay Unknown;

Whose Pomps allure and spurn—

And dower and deprive,

And penury for glory

Remedilessly leave.

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