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Shawn Bishop

23 June, 05:49

Read "The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson. Which line suggests that the train has horse-like qualities?

I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill

And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

Stop-docile and omnipotent-

At its own stable door.