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1830–1886

XXXI.

Emily Dickinson

Nature rarer uses yellow Than another hue; Saves she all of that for sunsets, — Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman, Yellow she affords Only scantly and selectly, Like a lover's words.

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