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Farther in summer than the birds,
Pathetic from the grass,
A minor nation celebrates
Its unobtrusive Mass. - Emily Dickinson
Attribution: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), U.S. poet. Farther in summer than the birds (l. 1–4). CP-Di. Poets of the English Language, Vols. I–V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press.

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