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The Brain -- is wider than the Sky --
For -- put them side by side.
The one the other will contain
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 -- Heft them -- Pound for Pound --
And they will differ -- if they do --
As Syllable from Sound --
---Emily Dickson
---found in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ca 1890; this collection 1960)