Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Frequently the woods are pink

by Emily Dickinson

XXXVI.

FREQUENTLY the woods are pink,
Frequently are brown;
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.

Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see,
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be.


And the earth, they tell me,
On its axis turned,—
Wonderful rotation
By but twelve performed!