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Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre --

By Emily DickinsonSource: Emily Dickinson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)72 words

Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre --

Without Design

Or Order, or Apparent Action --

Maintain --

The Sun -- upon a Morning meets them --

The Wind --

No nearer Neighbor -- have they --

But God --

The Acre gives them -- Place --

They -- Him -- Attention of Passer by --

Of Shadow, or of Squirrel, haply --

Or Boy --

What Deed is Theirs unto the General Nature --

What Plan

They severally -- retard -- or further --

Unknown --

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