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1830–1886

SETTING SAIL.

Emily Dickinson

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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