The Butterflies Assumption Gown

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The  Butterefly's assumption-gown,
In chrysoprase apartments hung,
This afternoon put on.

How condescending to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
In a New England town!

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

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