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September's Baccalaureate

A poem by Emily Dickinson · No. 1271

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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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August 19, 2008
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Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
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September's Baccalaureate A combination is Of Crickets -- Crows -- and Retrospects And a dissembling Breeze

That hints without assuming -- An Innuendo sear That makes the Heart put up its Fun And turn Philosopher.

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

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