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Dickinson, Emily - Through those old grounds of memories
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013558
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Through those old grounds of memory
The sauntering alone
Is a divine intemperance
A prudent man would shun.
Of liquors that are vended
‘Tis easy to beware
But statues do not meddle
With the internal bar.
Pernicious as the sunset
Permitting to pursue
But impotent to gather,
The tranquil perfidy
Alloys our firmer moments
With that severest gold
Convenient to the longing
But otherwise withheld