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1830–1886

ETERNITY.

Emily Dickinson

On this wondrous sea, Sailing silently, Ho! pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore

Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o'er? In the silent west Many sails at rest,

Their anchors fast; Thither I pilot thee, — Land, ho! Eternity! Ashore at last!

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