There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without opress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul
Source:Poem no. 1263: There is no Frigate like a Book; in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. Little, Brown & Co., 1960), Page 553
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