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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 106. This was in the white of the year

This was in the white of the year,

That was in the green,

Drifts were as difficult then to think

As daisies now to be seen.


Looking back is best that is left,

Or if it be before,

Retrospection is prospect's half,

Sometimes almost more.