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Emily Dickinson

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Because my Brook is fluent
I know ’tis dry—
Because my Brook is silent
It is the Sea—

And startled at its rising
I try to flee
To where the Strong assure me
Is “no more Sea”—

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From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson | Written c. 1871

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