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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 99. There is no frigate like a book

A BOOK.


There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,

Nor any coursers like a page

Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of toll;

How frugal is the chariot

That bears a human soul!

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