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Circuit IV - (26) I Send Two Sunsets (J-0308) (F-0557)

(Sent with brilliant flowers, probably at dusk) (1) I send two sunsets —   Day and I in competition ran, (2) I finished two, and several stars,   While he was making one. (3) His own is ampler — but as I   Was saying to a friend, (4) Mine is the more convenient   To carry in the hand. (Below: original letter-manuscript version without editing or imposed lineation.) (1) I send Two sunsets –     Day and I – in com – petition – ran – (2) I finished Two, and     several Stars While He – was making One – (3) His own is ampler     but as I Was saying to a friend – (4) Mine – is the more     Convenient To Carry in the Hand,   Emily – ~ Emily Dickinson ~ 3 Slideshows ~ Splendor! | More Amber! | Amber Gardens!

Commentary adapted from Emily Dickinson's Poems & Letters

(1-4) "These are my introduction . . ." ~ (L #342a) (ref. whispered to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, while handing him two day lilies)

(1-2) "Did the "stars differ" from each other in anything but 'glory,' there would be often envy. ~ (L #669)

(1-2) The competitions of the sky corrodeless ply. ~ (L #669) (J-1494) (F-excluded)

(1-2) "To wane without disparagement in a dissembling hue that will not let the Eye decide if it abide or no is Sunset's — perhaps — only." ~ (L #486) (J-1390) (F-1416)

(1-2) "The Orient is in the West." ~ (L #978)

(1-4) "Count not that far that can be had, though sunset lie between — nor that adjacent, that beside, is further than the sun." ~ (L #318) (J-1074) (F-1124)

(2-4) "Since some industry must be — the little toil of love, I thought, be large enough for me." ~ (J-0478) (F-0763)

(3) "Nature rarer uses yellow than another hue — saves she all of that for sunsets — prodigal of blue." ~ (J-1045) (F-1086)

(3-4) "Intimate — as fugitive as sunset on the snow." ~ (J-1504) (F-1533)

(3-4) "To own her for a friend — a warmth as near as if the sun were shining in your hand." ~ (L #802) (J-1568) (F-1597)

(3-4) "I've got an arrow here. Loving the hand that sent it, I the dart revere." ~ (J-1729) (F-0056)

(3-4) "That I could have a friend — so near — who found them at rare distances — as mints — and precious stones." ~ (L #246)

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