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Amherst / Massachusetts

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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.

Emily Dickinson

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

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Adeeb Alfateh 15 July 2019

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. SUPERB SUPERB BEAUTIFUL POEM SHARED GREAT 10++++++++++++++++++

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* Sunprincess * 09 June 2016

...........like a lover's words....beautiful ★

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