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There is no frigate like a book

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

There is no frigate like a book
  To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
  Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
  Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
  That bears a human soul!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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