Because my Brook is fluent

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Because my Brook is fluent by Emily Dickinson

 Because my Brook is fluent
I know 'tis dry --
Because my Brook is silent
It is the Sea --

And startled at its rising
I try to flee
To where the Strong assure me
Is "no more Sea" --

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