"The butterfly's assumption-gown"

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XXIII.

The butterfly's assumption-gown,
In chrysoprase apartments hung,
  This afternoon put on.

How condescending to descend,
And be of buttercups the friend
  In a New England town !


 
from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
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