From Us She wandered now a Year

Read 'From Us She wandered now a Year' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

From Us She wandered now a Year by Emily Dickinson

 From Us She wandered now a Year,
Her tarrying, unknown,
If Wilderness prevent her feet
Or that Ethereal Zone

No eye hath seen and lived
We ignorant must be --
We only know what time of Year
We took the Mystery.

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