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Emily Dickinson

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Exhilaration is the Breeze
That lifts us from the Ground
And leaves us in another place
Whose statement is not found—

Returns us not, but after time
We soberly descend
A little newer for the term
Upon Enchanted Ground—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1868

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