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FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 2 by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: HEAVEN IS WHAT I CANNOT REACH! / THE APPLE ON THE TREE
Last Line: THERE PARADISE IS FOUND!
Subject(s): HEAVEN; PARADISE;
Heaven is what I cannot reach!
The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
That 'heaven' is, to me.
The color on the cruising cloud,
The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, --
There Paradise is found!


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