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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series

XX.

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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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