"On this long storm the rainbow rose"

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On this long storm the rainbow rose, On this late morn the sun ; The clouds, like listless elephants, Horizons straggled down. The birds rose smiling in their nests, The gales indeed were done ; Alas !  how heedless were the eyes On whom the summer shone ! The quiet nonchalance of death No daybreak can bestir ; The slow archangel's syllables Must awaken her.

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"Safe in their alabaster chambers"	From the Chrysalis

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