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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part Three: Nature 64. This is the land the sunset washes

THE SEA OF SUNSET.


This is the land the sunset washes,

These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;

Where it rose, or whither it rushes,

These are the western mystery!


Night after night her purple traffic

Strews the landing with opal bales;

Merchantmen poise upon horizons,

Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.

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