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

Part One: Life

XLV

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!