I'll tell you how the sun rose

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Source: Project Gutenberg Dickinson series hosted as poems-of-emily-dickinson Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Dickinson poems from the 1890–1896 series publications; US public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 31132-31379; checksum f9cb5f7ade21d1784597dbc53643210d0823be95aa0767d7dd5f6d281d963b06.

# I'll tell you how the sun rose

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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