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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern American Poetry. 1919.

Emily Dickinson1830–1886

Chartless

I NEVER saw a moor,

I never saw the sea;

Yet now I know how the heather looks,

And what a wave must be.

I never spoke with God,

Nor visited in Heaven;

Yet certain am I of the spot

As if the chart were given.