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1830–1886

XXVI.

Emily Dickinson

The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, ‘ T were easier for you

To put the water back When floods have slit the hills, And scooped a turnpike for themselves, And blotted out the mills!

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