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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 106. I felt a clearing in my mind

THE LOST THOUGHT.


I felt a clearing in my mind

As if my brain had split;

I tried to match it, seam by seam,

But could not make them fit.


The thought behind I strove to join

Unto the thought before,

But sequence ravelled out of reach

Like balls upon a floor.