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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 24 of 446 · First Series: Life

Poem 24

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Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales, Whether to isles enchanted She bent her docile sails;

By what mystic mooring She is held to-day, -- This is the errand of the eye Out upon the bay.

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