Sunset at Night—is natural, by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Sunset at Night—is natural

415

Sunset at Night—is natural—

But Sunset on the Dawn

Reverses Nature—Master—

So Midnight’s—due—at Noon.

Eclipses be—predicted—

And Science bows them in—

But do one face us suddenly—

Jehovah’s Watch—is wrong.

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