But if they only stay
Ampler to fly away
Riches are sad.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Its far -- far Treasure to surmise --And estimate the Pearl --
That slipped my simple fingers through --
While just a Girl at School.
Emily Dickinson
The Hills erect their Purple Heads
The Rivers lean to see
Yet Man has not of all the Throng
A Curiosity.
Emily Dickinson
The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We -- difficult -- acquire
As Children, who remain in Face
The more their Feet retire.
Emily Dickinson
The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.
Emily Dickinson
The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend Or the most agonizing Spy An Enemy could send .
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Next time, to tarry,
While the Ages steal --
Slow tramp the Centuries,
And the Cycles wheel!
Emily Dickinson
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