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By Emily Dickinson
I never saw a moor, / I never saw the sea; / Yet know I how the heather looks, / And what a wave must be.
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- Poems by Emily Dickinson (first series), 1890 · p. 126
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- Internet Archive (scan of the Roberts Brothers edition, Boston, 1890)
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The first stanza of an untitled poem from Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890), no. XVII. The early editors changed some of her punctuation and wording, so this is the 1890 text, not her manuscript. Verse lines are separated by a slash (/).