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The Brain Is Wider than the Sky
Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #12242, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242 Public domain basis: Complete text of the three posthumous series edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson (1890, 1891, 1896), with their editorial titles and regularized punctuation. Public domain. Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition poems-of-emily-dickinson at bytes 135777-136178; checksum 4043a2e1faaa860e4610bcfff898f4f5d146402b3f3426001389e8bf10fdd2fa.
# The Brain Is Wider than the Sky
The Brain Is Wider than the Sky
XLIII.
THE BRAIN.
The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
The brain is deeper than the sea, For, hold them, blue to blue, The one the other will absorb, As sponges, buckets do.
The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do, As syllable from sound.