Poem A Day

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls

by Emily Dickinson

From all the Jails the Boys and Girls

Ecstatically leap --

Beloved only Afternoon

That Prison doesn't keep

They storm the Earth and stun the Air,

A Mob of solid Bliss --

Alas -- that Frowns should lie in wait

For such a Foe as this --

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