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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SETTING SAIL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Exultation is the going
Last Line: Of the first league out from land?
Subject(s): Life; Time
First Line: Exultation is the going
Last Line: Of the first league out from land?
Subject(s): Life; Time
EXULTATION is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, --
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
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