I felt a funeral in my brain,

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1. I felt a funeral in my brain,
2. And mourners, to and fro,
3. Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
4. That sense was breaking through.
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6. And when they all were seated,
7. A service like a drum
8. Kept beating, beating, till I thought
9. My mind was going numb.
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11. And then I heard them lift a box,
12. And creak across my soul
13. With those same boots of lead, again.
14. Then space began to toll
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16. As all the heavens were a bell,
17. And Being but an ear,
18. And I and silence some strange race,
19. Wrecked, solitary, here.