Poems: Second Series (Dickinson)/Delight becomes pictorial

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XIX.

DELIGHT becomes pictorial
When viewed through pain,—
More fair, because impossible
That any gain.

The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,—
And that's the skies!

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