Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
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Poems (Series 2) / by Emily Dickinson [electronic text]
Author
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Editor
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911, Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932
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Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company
1910
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XVII. THE RAILWAY TRAIN.
I LIKE to see it lap the miles,And lick the valleys up,And stop to feed itself at tanks;And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains,And, supercilious, peerIn shanties by the sides of roads;And then a quarry pare.
To fit its sides, and crawl between,Complaining all the whileIn horrid, hooting stanza;Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges;Then, punctual as a star,Stop — docile and omnipotent —At its own stable door.
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