With the first Arbutus

Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,

Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.

Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.

(With the first Arbutus.)

by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) , no title, from Poems of Emily Dickinson, published 1890

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by Ernst Bacon (1898-1990) , "With the first Arbutus", published 1971 [SSA chorus and piano], from Nature, no. ?

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