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 —
(Emily Dickinson)
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