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Emily Dickinson

1052

I never saw a Moor—
I never saw the Sea—
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven—
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1865

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