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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 3. At half-past three a single bird

At half-past three a single bird

Unto a silent sky

Propounded but a single term

Of cautious melody.


At half-past four, experiment

Had subjugated test,

And lo! her silver principle

Supplanted all the rest.


At half-past seven, element

Nor implement was seen,

And place was where the presence was,

Circumference between.

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