Emily Dickinson
A feather from the Whippoorwill
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A feather from the Whippoorwill
That everlasting — sings!
Whose galleries — are Sunrise
Whose Opera — the Springs
Whose Emerald Nest the Ages spin
Of mellow — murmuring thread
Whose Beryl Egg, what Schoolboys hunt
In "Recess" — Overhead!