No Bobolink – reverse His Singing | Affiliated Manuscripts

H 131 (Fr766A)

ca. 1863, fall

Ink | Fair copy | Bound (fascicle 34)

On laid, cream, lightly-ruled stationery, embossed with a capitol within a plain horizontal oval

Retained in Dickinson's archive.

No Bobolink – reverse
His Singing
When the only Tree
Ever He minded occupying
By the Farmer be –

 

Clove to the +Root –
His Spacious Future –
+Best Horizon – +gone –
2Whose Music be His
Only Anodyne –
1Brave Bobolink –

 

+   Core  +  All  +  known –