Poem: Emily Dickinson “A Light Exists in Spring” [Vol. 2, #10]
A Light Exists in Spring
Emily Dickinson
A light exists in spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That science cannot overtake,
But Human Nature feels.
It waits upon the Lawn;
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope we know;
It almost speaks to me.
Then as Horizons step,
Or Noons report away,
Without the Formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay –
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content,
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament.
