Nature
Sunset at night is natural,
From Further Poems of Emily Dickinson (1929)
Nature
Sunset at night is natural,
But sunset in the dawn
Reverses Nature, Master,
So midnight due at noon.
Eclipses be predicted
And Science bows them in,
But so one face us suddenly—
Jehovah's watch is wrong.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Sunset at night is natural.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/575/.
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Dickinson, Emily. “Sunset at night is natural.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/dickinson/575/.
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