Reticence

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson portrait

1830 to 1886

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Track 1

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Every 10th word

The reticent volcano keeps
 His never slumbering plan;
are his projects pink
 To no precarious man.

nature will not tell the tale
 Jehovah told 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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