As if some little Arctic flowerUpon the polar hem —Went wandering down the LatitudesUntil it puzzled cameTo continents of summer —To firmaments of sun —To strange, bright crowds of flowers —And birds, of foreign tongue!I say, As if this little flowerTo Eden, wandered in —What then? Why nothing,Only, your inference therefrom!
--Emily Dickinson, No. 177 (1860)
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