There is no frigate like a book
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson's There is no frigate like a book
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