Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson

AS IF SOME LITTLE ARCTIC FLOWER

            S if some little arctic flower,
            Upon the polar hem,
            Went wandering down the latitudes,
            Until it puzzled came
            To continents of summer,
            To firmaments of sun,
            To strange, bright crowds of flowers,
            And birds of foreign tongue!
            I say, as if this little flower
            To Eden wandered in--
            What then? Why, nothing, only
            Your inference therefrom!