Nature affects to be sedate
Upon occasion, grand
But let our observation shut
Her practices extend

To Necromancy and the Trades
Remote to understand
Behold our spacious Citizen
Unto a Juggler turned —

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Nature affects to be sedate

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