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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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