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Poems (Dickinson)/I never saw a moor

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Poems (1890)
by Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor
8339Poems — I never saw a moor1890Emily Dickinson

XVII.

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I 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.