• Emily Dickinson

    266.The Sea of Sunset/This is the land

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This is — the land the sunset — washes,
These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!
 
Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.
 

 

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