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Delight becomes pictorial

by Emily Dickinson, 1891

Delight becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain, —
More fair, because impossible
That any gain.

The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little, —
And that 's the skies!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series
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