The going from a world we know

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

The going from a world we know

To one a wonder still

Is like the child's adversity

Whose vista is a hill,

Behind the hill is sorcery

And everything unknown,

But will the secret compensate

For climbing it alone?

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