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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 6. The robin is the one

THE ROBIN.


The robin is the one

That interrupts the morn

With hurried, few, express reports

When March is scarcely on.


The robin is the one

That overflows the noon

With her cherubic quantity,

An April but begun.


The robin is the one

That speechless from her nest

Submits that home and certainty

And sanctity are best.