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I like to see it lap the Miles : ウィキペディア英語版 | I like to see it lap the Miles
"I like to see it lap the Miles" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that describes an "iron horse" or railroad engine and its train. The poem was first published in 1891. "I like to see it lap the Miles" is a children's favorite, but critics find it wanting in the mature substance typical of Dickinson. == Summary == The poem is four stanzas in length and describes a railroad engine and its train of cars in metaphors that suggest an animal that is both "docile" and "omnipotent". The train "laps the miles" and "licks up the valleys" then stops to "feed itself" at tanks along the way. It passes mountains with a "prodigious step", "peers" superciliously into shanties, and moves through a narrow passage in a quarry. After descending a hill, it stops at the terminal like a horse before its barn door. :
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