“A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,
A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,
A Peace, as Hemispheres at Home
And so the Night became.”

1104: The Crickets sang
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

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American poet 1830–1886

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