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1830–1886

FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

Emily Dickinson

Heaven is what I cannot reach! The apple on the tree, Provided it do hopeless hang, That‘ heaven’ is, to me.

The color on the cruising cloud, The interdicted ground Behind the hill, the house behind, — There Paradise is found!

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