To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie

Emily Dickinson
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee— ✨ Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.1309, Harvard University Press
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To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee— ✨ Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.1309, Harvard University Press

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