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One Day is there of the Series

by Emily Dickinson

1One Day is there of the Series

2Termed Thanksgiving Day.

3Celebrated part at Table

4Part in Memory.

5Neither Patriarch nor Pussy

6I dissect the Play

7Seems it to my Hooded thinking

8Reflex Holiday.

9Had there been no sharp Subtraction

10From the early Sum —

11Not an Acre or a Caption

12Where was once a Room —

13Not a Mention, whose small Pebble

14Wrinkled any Sea,

15Unto Such, were such Assembly

16'Twere Thanksgiving Day.

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One Day is there of the Series
Poet
Emily Dickinson
Length
16 lines
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Lyric Poem
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Nature

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Emily Dickinson1830–1886
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PoetryDBOne Day is there of the Series by emily-dickinson, PoetryDB transcription
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