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The Sky Is Low
Emily Dickinson · 1890
Catalog grade guidance: 6–12 — Short lyric; Todd/Higginson text of the three early series.
10 content lines · 47 words · Est. recitation about 30 sec (approx.)
Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.
XXIX. BECLOUDED. The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind complains all day How some one treated him; Nature, like us, is sometimes caught Without her diadem.