Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts

Chartless

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet now I know how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
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