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ORIGINAL POEMS: Fascicle 6Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily DickinsonDickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1960The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Centenary EditionEmily DickinsonMartha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete HampsonBostonLittle, Brown, and Company1930Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's PoemsEmily DickinsonThomas H. JohnsonBostonLittle, Brown and Company1961
Poem 6 (J 75: 1830-1886)She died at play,Gambolled awayHer lease of spotted hours,Then sank as gaily as a TurkUpon a Couchcouch of flowers.Her ghost strolled softly o'er the hillYesterday, and Todaytoday,Her vestments as the silver fleece—,Her countenance as spray.