id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dickinson-series02_047-1891 dickinson dickinson-series02_047-1891 1891 .txt text/plain 98 5 84 It was as if a chirping brook Upon a toilsome way Set bleeding feet to minuets Without the knowing why. Heart not so heavy as mine, Wending late home, As it passed my window Whistled itself a tune, -- A careless snatch, a ballad, A ditty of the street; Yet to my irritated ear An anodyne so sweet, It was as if a bobolink, Sauntering this way, Carolled and mused and carolled, Then bubbled slow away. cache/dickinson-series02_047-1891.txt txt/dickinson-series02_047-1891.txt