Read the poem: “Setting Sail”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Setting Sail

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Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea, —

Past the houses, past the headlands,

Into deep eternity!

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Bred as we, among the mountains,

Can the sailor understand

The divine intoxication

Of the first league out from land?

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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