XIX.

Name: Poems, Second Series - XIX.
Author: Emily Dickinson

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!

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