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American Romanticism

A sloop of amber slips away

by Emily Dickinson · 1830–1886

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short lyricamerican romanticism
A sloop of amber slips awayEmily Dickinson
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A sloop of amber slips away

Upon an ether sea,

And wrecks in peace a purple tar,

The son of ecstasy.