We should not mind so small a flower

Read 'We should not mind so small a flower' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

We should not mind so small a flower by Emily Dickinson

 We should not mind so small a flower --
Except it quiet bring
Our little garden that we lost
Back to the Lawn again.

So spicy her Carnations nod --
So drunken, reel her Bees --
So silver steal a hundred flutes
From out a hundred trees --

That whoso sees this little flower
By faith may clear behold
The Bobolinks around the throne
And Dandelions gold.

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