Source: Project Gutenberg Dickinson series hosted as poems-of-emily-dickinson
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Public domain basis: Dickinson poems from the 1890–1896 series publications; US public domain.
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# I'll tell you how the sun rose

I'll tell you how the sun rose, --
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.

The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"

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