Lyric Poem · Nature
If pain for peace prepares
If pain for peace prepares
Lo, what "Augustan" years
Our feet await!
If springs from winter rise,
Can the Anemones
Be reckoned up?
If night stands fast — then noon
To gird us for the sun,
What gaze!
When from a thousand skies
On our developed eyes
Noons blaze!
This poem is in the public domain.
“If pain for peace prepares” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/if-pain-for-peace-prepares
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