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AS FAR FROM PITY AS COMPLAINT by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: And blaze — the Butterflies!
Subject(s): BUTTERFLIES;
As far from pity, as complaint -
As cool to speech - as stone -
As numb to Revelation
As if my Trade were Bone -

As far from time - as History -
As near yourself - Today -
As Children, to the Rainbow's scarf -
Or Sunset's Yellow play

To eyelids in the Sepulchre -
How dumb the Dancer lies -
While Color's Revelations break -
And blaze - the Butterflies!


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