Cocoon above! Cocoon below! lyrics
by Emily Dickinson
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Cocoon above! Cocoon below!
Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so
What all the world suspect?
An hour, and gay on every tree
Your secret, perched in ecstasy
Defies imprisonment!
An hour in Chrysalis to pass
Then gay above receding grass
A Butterfly to go!
A moment to interrogate
Then wiser than a "Surrogate,"
The Universe to know!