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Setting Sail by Emily Dickinson Lyrics

Genre: misc | Year: 1890

Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, —
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!

Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?