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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 45. Delight becomes pictorial

Delight becomes pictorial

When viewed through pain, --

More fair, because impossible

That any gain.


The mountain at a given distance

In amber lies;

Approached, the amber flits a little, --

And that 's the skies!

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