I Never Saw a Moor

I NEVER saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I 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.

First print Time and Eternity XVII, 17
Johnson 1052 | Franklin 800

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■→Poems, first print by Higginson and Todd, page 126;
Heaven capitalized, for reference to belief.

■Notes for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
Poems one-by-one print and fascicle comparison,
■Resource for Emily Dickinson’s poetry;
■Google Drive, manuscript fascicles.