Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE, by EMILY DICKINSON



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Last Line: And blotted out the mills!
Subject(s): Mind, The


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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