Poems — Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

Delight Becomes Pictorial

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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