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The Secret

            XIV.

 

 

 

Some things that fly there be, --

Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:

Of these no elegy.

 

Some things that stay there be, --

Grief, hills, eternity:

Nor this behooveth me.

 

There are, that resting, rise.

Can I expound the skies?

How still the riddle lies! 

 

 

 

- Emily Dickinson

 

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