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Sweet is the swamp with its secrets

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets,
  Until we meet a snake;
'Tis then we sigh for houses,
  And our departure take
At that enthralling gallop
  That only childhood knows.
A snake is summer's treason,
  And guile is where it goes.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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