Exultation Is the Going

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890

Exultation is the goingOf an inland soul to sea,—Past the houses, past the headlands,Into deep eternity!

Bred as we, among the mountains,Can the sailor understandThe divine intoxicationOf the first league out from land?

From Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890), where it appears as "Setting Sail", via the English Wikisource transcription.

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