Page:Emily Dickinson Poems

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38 POEMS.

XXIV. RETICENCE.

r pHE reticent volcano keeps -* His never slumbering plan ; Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

If nature will not tell the tale

Jehovah told to her, Can human nature not survive

Without a listener?

Admonished by her buckled lips Let every babbler be.

The only secret people keep Is Immortality.

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