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The mountain sat upon the plain

In his eternal chair,
His observation omnifold,
His inquest everywhere.

The seasons prayed around his knees,
Like children round a sire:
Grandfather of the days is he,
Of dawn the ancestor.
Dickinson uses figurative language in the first stanza to

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It compares the mountain to the morning sky.

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