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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part Five: The Single Hound

CXXIV

TO tell the beauty would decrease,

To state the Spell demean,

There is a syllableless sea

Of which it is the sign.

My will endeavours for its word

And fails, but entertains

A rapture as of legacies—

Of introspective mines.