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THE BRAIN, WITHIN ITS GROOVE by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

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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