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Than Heaven more remote, - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Than Heaven more remote,

By Emily DickinsonSource: Emily Dickinson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)Short55 words

For Heaven is the root,

But these the flitted seed.

More flown indeed

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