To This World She Returned, por Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

To This World She Returned

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To this World she returned.

But with a tinge of that—

A Compound manner,

As a Sod

Espoused a Violet,

That chiefer to the Skies

Than to himself, allied,

Dwelt hesitating, half of Dust,

And half of Day, the Bride.

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