Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SNAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON



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First Line: Sweet is the swamp with its secrets
Last Line: And guile is where it goes.
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1740;poem: 1780
Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


SWEET is the swamp with its secrets,
Until we meet a snake;
'T is then we sigh for houses,
And our departure take

At that enthralling gallop
That only childhood knows.
A snake is summer's treason,
And guile is where it goes.





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