The Waking Year

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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Track 1

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A lady red upon the hill
 Her annual keeps;
A lady white within the field
 In lily sleeps!

The tidy breezes with their brooms
  vale, and hill, and tree!
Prithee, my pretty housewives!
 Who may expected be?

The neighbors do not yet suspect!
 The woods exchange a smile —
Orchard, and buttercup, and bird —
 In such a little while!

yet how still the landscape stands,
 How nonchalant wood,
As if the resurrection
 Were nothing very odd!