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CHARTLESS by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: I NEVER SAW A MOOR
Last Line: AS IF THE CHART WERE GIVEN.
Subject(s): DEATH; FAITH; GOD; HEAVEN; RELIGION; SKY; DEAD, THE; BELIEF; CREED; PARADISE; THEOLOGY;
I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spake with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.


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