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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 134 of 446 · Second Series: Life

Poem 19

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Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain, --
More fair, because impossible
That any gain.

The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little, --
And that 's the skies!

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