Whether my bark went down at sea

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

Whether she met with gales,

Whether to isles enchanted

She bent her docile sails;


By what mystic mooring

She is held to-day,—

This is the errand of the eye

Out upon the bay.

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