id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dickinson-series01_011-1890 dickinson dickinson-series01_011-1890 1890 .txt text/plain 145 5 65 And Sophocles a man; When Sappho was a living girl, And Beatrice wore The gown that Dante deified. Facts, centuries before, He traverses familiar, As one should come to town And tell you all your dreams were true; He lived where dreams were sown. A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. cache/dickinson-series01_011-1890.txt txt/dickinson-series01_011-1890.txt