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To Make a Prairie
Emily Dickinson · 1890
Catalog grade guidance: 5–12 — Short lyric; Todd/Higginson text of the three early series.
6 content lines · 28 words · Est. recitation about 17 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.
XV. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -- One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few.