Emily Dickinson

Color — Caste — Denomination

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Color — Caste — Denomination

970 Color — Caste — Denomination — These — are Time's Affair — Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are — As in sleep — All Hue forgotten — Tenets — put behind — Death's large—Democratic fingers Rub away the Brand — If Circassian — He is careless — If He put away Chrysalis of Blonde—or Umber — Equal Butterfly — They emerge from His Obscuring — What Death — knows so well — Our minuter intuitions — Deem unplausible —