I never saw a Moor

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I never saw a Moor is Emily Dickinson's brief, radiant affirmation of faith — that one can be certain of things never seen, from heather on a moor to the reality of Heaven. "Yet certain am I of the spot / As if the Checks were given —"
Author Emily Dickinson
Credit for portrait of Emily Dickinson: Todd-Bingham picture collection, 1837-1966 (inclusive). Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University.
I never saw a Moor —
I never saw the Sea —
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Wave must be.

I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven —
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the Checks were given —