Unfulfilled to Observation --

Read 'Unfulfilled to Observation --' by 'Emily Dickinson' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Unfulfilled to Observation -- by Emily Dickinson

 Unfulfilled to Observation --
Incomplete -- to Eye --
But to Faith -- a Revolution
In Locality --

Unto Us -- the Suns extinguish --
To our Opposite --
New Horizons -- they embellish --
Fronting Us -- with Night.

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