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These tested Our Horizon

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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These tested Our Horizon-
Then disappeared
As Birds before achieving
A Latitude.

Our Retrospection of Them
A fixed Delight,
But our Anticipation
A Dice-a Doubt-




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