For works with similar titles, see The Secret.
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603507Poems — The Secret1890Emily Dickinson

XIV.

THE SECRET.

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!