These tested Our Horizon —
Then disappeared
As Birds before achieving
A Latitude.

Our Retrospection of Them
A fixed Delight,
But our Anticipation
A Dice — a Doubt —

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem These tested Our Horizon —

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