Poem A Day

These are the Signs to Nature's Inns --

by Emily Dickinson

These are the Signs to Nature's Inns --

Her invitation broad

To Whosoever famishing

To taste her mystic Bread --

These are the rites of Nature's House --

The Hospitality

That opens with an equal width

To Beggar and to Bee

For Sureties of her staunch Estate

Her undecaying Cheer

The Purple in the East is set

And in the North, the Star --

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