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Emily Dickinson

1495

The Thrill came slowly like a Boom for
Centuries delayed
Its fitness growing like the Flood
In sumptuous solitude—
The desolations only missed
While Rapture changed its Dress
And stood amazed before the Change
In ravished Holiness—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1880

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