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FROM ALL THE JAILS THE BOYS AND GIRLS by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: For such a Foe as this 
Subject(s): CHILDREN; PLAY;
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 should lie in wait
For such a Foe as this


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