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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 103. From all the jails the boys and girls

SATURDAY AFTERNOON.


From all the jails the boys and girls

Ecstatically leap, --

Beloved, only afternoon

That prison doesn't keep.


They storm the earth and stun the air,

A mob of solid bliss.

Alas! that frowns could lie in wait

For such a foe as this!

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