"The mighty wheel rumbles beneath"
Gibson, Jones, Levin, Hughes, Dickinson, Levine
Dobby Gibson:
Patricia Spears Jones:
Dana Levin:
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Langston Hughes:
Emily Dickinson:
Luck is not chance— / It’s Toil—/ Fortune’s expensive smile / Is earned—
The Father of the Mine / Is that old-fashioned Coin /  Disowned —We spurned—
Arden Levine:
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What is the relationship of the Dickinson transcription to the autograph version? The transcription seems to reverse the ending of the hand written version.