Further in Summer than the Birds / Emily Dickinson

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Further in Summer than the Birds –
Pathetic from the Grass –
A minor Nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass.

No Ordinance be seen –
So gradual the Grace
A gentle Custom it becomes –
Enlarging Loneliness –

Antiquest felt at Noon –
When August burning low
Arise this spectral Canticle
Repose to typify –

Remit as yet no Grace –
No furrow on the Glow,
But a Druidic Difference
Enhances Nature now –

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

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Rushikesh R. Mule, Indian birds, 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.