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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee

Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

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Written c. 1880. Published 1896.

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