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Heaven is what I cannot reach!

by Emily Dickinson, 1896

Heaven is what I cannot reach!
  The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
  That 'heaven' is, to me.

The color on the cruising cloud,
  The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, —
  There Paradise is found!

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series
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