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Blazing in gold and quenching in purple

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,
Leaping like leopards to the sky,
Then at the feet of the old horizon
Laying her spotted face, to die;

Stooping as low as the otter's window,
Touching the roof and tinting the barn,
Kissing her bonnet to the meadow, —
And the juggler of day is gone!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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