To tell the beauty would decrease

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

To state the Spell demean,

There is a syllableless sea

Of which it is the sign.


My will endeavours for its word

And fails, but entertains

A rapture as of legacies—

Of introspective mines.

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