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A Poem For Sunday

By The Daily Dish
Aug 10 2008, 5:05 AM ET

Harbormorning

Perhaps one of my favorite pieces of verse ever written, by Emily Dickinson:

Will there really be a morning?
Is there such a thing as day?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like water-lilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!



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