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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Four: Time and Eternity 7. Exultation is the going

SETTING SAIL.


Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea, --

Past the houses, past the headlands,

Into deep eternity!


Bred as we, among the mountains,

Can the sailor understand

The divine intoxication

Of the first league out from land?

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