We spy the Forests and the Hills

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

The tents to Nature's Show,

Mistake the outside for the in

And mention what we saw.


Could Commentators on the sign

Of Nature's Caravan

Obtain "admission," as a child,

Some Wednesday afternoon?

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