Reticence

Emily Dickinson

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1830 to 1886

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The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.
Without a listener?
Confided are his projects pink
Admonished by her buckled lips
Jehovah told to her,
His never slumbering plan;
Can human nature not survive
Let every babbler be.
To no precarious man.
If nature will not tell the tale
The reticent volcano keeps

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