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The Sky Is Low

Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

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Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Complete text of the three posthumous series edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (1890, 1891, 1896), with their editorial titles and regularized punctuation. Public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 33729-33983; checksum 014c11170bcb821e4c06993fff3f2cafef47792f0efa7e764956759c1ca50ada.

# The Sky Is Low

The Sky Is Low

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.