AN ALTERED LOOK ABOUT THE HILLS

by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

      N altered look about the hills;
      A Tyrian light the village fills;
      A wider sunrise in the dawn;
      A deeper twilight on the lawn;
      A print of a vermilion foot;
      A purple finger on the slope;
      A flippant fly upon the pane;
      A spider at his trade again;
      An added strut in chanticleer;
      A flower expected everywhere;
      An axe shrill singing in the woods;
      Fern-odors on untravelled roads,--
      All this, and more I cannot tell,
      A furtive look you know as well,
      And Nicodemus' mystery
      Receives its annual reply.

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