ghizela rowe - emily dickinson - as imperceptably as grief lyrics

as imperceptibly as grief
the summer lapsed away, —
too imperceptible, at last
to seem like perfidy
a quietness distilled
as twilight long begun
or nature, spending with herself
sequestered afternoon
the dusk drew earlier in
the morning foreign shone, —
a courteous, yet harrowing grace
as guest who would be gone

and thus, without a wing
or service of a keel
our summer made her light escape
into the beautiful