I never saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson
I never saw a Moor -
I never saw the Sea -
Yet know I how the Heather looks
And what a Billow be.
I never spoke with God
Nor visited in Heaven -
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if Checks were given -
One bears about a cult of hands-on experience in America, but Dickinson shows again and again that the imagination can function magnificently in a person who seldom leaves the house