From all the Jails the Boys and Girls
Ecstatically leap --
Beloved only Afternoon
That Prison doesn't keep

They storm the Earth and stun the Air,
A Mob of solid Bliss --
Alas -- that Frowns should lie in wait
For such a Foe as this --

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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1532. From all the Jails the Boys and Girls
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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