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Come slowly -- Eden!

A poem by Emily Dickinson · No. 211

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Come slowly -- Eden! Lips unused to Thee -- Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines -- As the fainting Bee --

Reaching late his flower, Round her chamber hums -- Counts his nectars -- Enters -- and is lost in Balms.

From the bookComplete Poems of Emily DickinsonEdited by Thomas H. Johnson (Little, Brown)

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  1. Assley Oshito China

    this poem is great

  2. frumpo United States

    Live a long, full life; then enter the relatively unknown heaven.

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