Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924. |
Part Four: Time and Eternity
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| I HAVE not told my garden yet, | |
| Lest that should conquer me; | |
| I have not quite the strength now | |
| To break it to the bee. | |
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| I will not name it in the street, | 5 |
| For shops would stare, that I, | |
| So shy, so very ignorant, | |
| Should have the face to die. | |
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| The hillsides must not know it, | |
| Where I have rambled so, | 10 |
| Nor tell the loving forests | |
| The day that I shall go, | |
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| Nor lisp it at the table, | |
| Nor heedless by the way | |
| Hint that within the riddle | 15 |
| One will walk to-day! | |
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