Setting Sail

VII. SETTING SAIL.

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 ?

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
From the Chrysalis	"Look back on time with kindly eyes"

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