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Setting Sail
by:
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
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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poems by Emily Dickinson