Delight becomes pictorial

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

      When viewed through pain,—

More fair, because impossible

That any gain.


The mountain at a given distance

In amber lies;

Approached, the amber flits a little,—

And that's the skies!

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