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By Emily Dickinson
There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry.
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- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, 1896 · "A Book", p. 29
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of the Roberts Brothers Third Series, Boston, 1896)
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The first stanza of "A Book" from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896), Book I, Life, no. XVI. The early editors changed some of her punctuation and wording, so this is the 1896 text, not her manuscript. Verse lines are separated by a slash (/).