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

Part One: Life

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!