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I felt a funeral in my brain lyrics
I felt a funeral in my brain lyrics
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I felt a funeral in my brain lyrics

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading – treading – till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through –

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum –

Kept beating – beating – till I thought

My Mind was going numb –

And then I heard them lift a Box

And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space – began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear,

And I, and Silence, some strange Race

Wrecked, solitary, here –

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down –

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing – then –

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Emily Dickinson
  • country:United States
  • Languages:English
  • Genre:Poetry
  • Wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
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