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COLOR - CASTE - DENOMINATION by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: OUR MINUTER INTUITIONS - %DEEM UNPLAUSIBLE

Color - Caste - Denomination -
These - are Time's Affair -
Death's diviner Classifying
Does not know they are -


As in sleep - All Hue forgotten -
Tenets - put behind -
Death's large - Democratic fingers
Rub away the Brand -


If Circassian - He is careless -
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde - or Umber -
Equal Butterfly -


They emerge from His Obscuring -
What Death - knows so well -
Our minuter intuitions -
Deem unplausible -




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