Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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The butterfly's assumption-gown,
In chrysoprase apartments hung,
  This afternoon put on.

How condescending to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
  In a New England town!

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2. Playmates
3. Remorse
4. Resurgam
5. The Martyrs

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