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Nature Rarer Uses Yellow

Emily Dickinson

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Nature rarer uses yellow
Than another hue;
Saves she all of that for sunsets,--
Prodigal of blue,

Spending scarlet like a woman,
Yellow she affords
Only scantly and selectly,
Like a lover's words.

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