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Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

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I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

Source: c.1865, poem no. 1052, St. 1.
-- Emily Dickinson, (Dec 10 1830-1886), US poet; She was a reclusive stylist who combined spare lyricism with unorthodox diction.


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