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Emily Dickinson (1830–86).  Complete Poems.  1924.

Part One: Life

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SOME things that fly there be,—
Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
Of these no elegy.
  
Some things that stay there be,—
Grief, hills, eternity:        5
Nor this behooveth me.
  
There are, that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the riddle lies!

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