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She slept beneath a tree

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

She slept beneath a tree
  Remembered but by me.
I touched her cradle mute;
She recognized the foot,
Put on her carmine suit, —
  And see!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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