The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition, Franklin, 1998
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They called me to the Window, for"'Twas Sunset" - Some one said - I only saw a Sapphire Farm - And just a Single Herd - Of Opal Cattle - feeding farOpon so vain a Hill - As even while I looked - dissolved - Nor Cattle were - nor Soil - But in theirstead - Room - a Sea - displayed - And Ships - of such a sizeAs Crew of Mountains - could afford - And Decks - to seat the Skies -This - too - the Showman rubbed away - And when I looked again - Nor Farm - nor Opal Herd - was there -Nor Mediterranean -