Read the poem: “The Secret”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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The Secret

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Some things that fly there be, —

Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:

Of these no elegy.

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Some things that stay there be, —

Grief, hills, eternity:

Nor this behooveth me.

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There are, that resting, rise.

Can I expound the skies?

How still the riddle lies!

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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