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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

XXVI

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!