The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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God made a little Gentian -It tried - to be a Rose - And failed - and all the Summer laughed - But just before the Snows There rose a Purple Creature -That ravished all the Hill - And Summer hid hereher Forehead - And Mockery - was still - The Frosts were her condition - The Tyrian would not comeUntil the North - invoke it - Creator - Shall I - bloom?