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Sunday, December 18, 2011

A Book by Emily Dickinson


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

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