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This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies, And Lads and Girls; Was laughter and ability and sighing, And frocks and curls. This passive place a Summer's nimble mansion, Where Bloom and BeesFulfilled their Oriental Circuit, Then ceased like these.

Emily Dickinson

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