id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dickinson-series03_069-1896 dickinson dickinson-series03_069-1896 1896 .txt text/plain 63 4 76 He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool, -- Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul. cache/dickinson-series03_069-1896.txt txt/dickinson-series03_069-1896.txt