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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series

by Emily Dickinson

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IV Forbidden Fruit

I

Forbidden fruit a flavor has
  That lawful orchards mocks;
How luscious lies the pea within
  The pod that Duty locks!

V Forbidden Fruit

II

Heaven is what I cannot reach!
  The apple on the tree,
Provided it do hopeless hang,
  That ‘heaven’ is, to me.

The color on the cruising cloud,
  The interdicted ground
Behind the hill, the house behind, —
  There Paradise is found!

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