Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past…

Emily Dickinson
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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land? ✨ Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). The Poems of Emily Dickinson, p.72, Harvard University Press
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