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TO LEARN THE TRANSPORT BY THE PAIN by EMILY DICKINSON

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Last Line: Of the Mysterious Bard!
Subject(s): PAIN;
To learn the Transport by the Pain
As Blind Men learn the sun!
To die of thirst - suspecting
That Brooks in Meadows run!

To stay the homesick - homesick feet
Upon a foreign shore -
Haunted by native lands, the while -
And blue - beloved air!

This is the Sovereign Anguish!
This - the signal woe!
These are the patient "Laureates"
Whose voices - trained - below -

Ascend in ceaseless Carol -
Inaudible, indeed,
To us - the duller scholars
Of the Mysterious Bard!


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